Should operators switch-off their legacy infrastructure or re-purpose it for M2M?

Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2014, WoWMoM 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kulkarni, Parag ^a   Oviedo, Raul Martinez ^b  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS;

ECONOMIC STANDPOINTS; G-SYSTEM; MACHINE-TO-MACHINE (M2M); REVENUE STREAMS;

LEGACY SYSTEMS;

EID: 84908892199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WoWMoM.2014.6918929     Document Type: Conference Paper

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