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Complement and Network Externalisties in the Mobile Devices Industry
Author: Mobile Telecommunications Standards
Author: Rudi BekkersPublisher: Artech House
ISBN: 9781580532501
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Gain a thorough understanding of the dynamics of today's mobile telecommunications standards with this unique new resource. The book examines the development and adoption trajectories of major European standards, such as UMTS, GSM, ERMES, and TETRA. It presents a framework that analyzes the factors that influenced each standard's level of success, and includes the most-comprehensive case studies on these standards.
Managing Mobile Technologies: An Analysis From Multiple Perspectives
Author: Daim Tugrul UPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 981327817X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This book captures recent research on managing mobile technologies. It provides a handbook-style reference to professionals in different industries to help them manage the very latest technologies that have become a part of every business today.The book reviews multiple perspectives of the challenges brought by the introduction of mobile technologies into our lives. The technical perspective covers major constructs at play; the organizational perspective reviews international cases; and the personal perspective investigates the adoption of emerging applications and their impact.By reviewing multiple perspectives, readers will be able to adopt a tool to manage the complexities and challenges brought by the mobile technologies.
The Network(ed) Economy
Author: Roman BeckPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3835092138
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Roman Beck presents a new goods classification model to explore the dissemination of IT and e-business standards and designs two applications that support and improve firms' electronic interlaced communication by means of automation and standardization effects. He then examines how network effects drive the diffusion of communication standards and develops a model which is implemented as a simulation to show the dynamic interplay between direct and indirect network effects during the diffusion process. It also addresses critical mass and life cycle issues, as well as related utility changes in communication standards.
A Steady State Approach to a Network Externality Market with Switching Costs
Author: David A. MillerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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We study duopoly pricing in the market for mobile phone service, which features network externalities, switching costs, and consumer heterogeneity. We introduce a steady state approach that enables a tractable analysis without endgame effects. The model can generate a variety of testable predictions, of which we focus on the comparative statics with respect to switching costs. Using data on the mobile phone service industries in 52 countries, we use the variation in market structure at the time switching costs were suddenly reduced by the regulatory imposition of mobile number portability (MNP). Firms that grew more rapidly prior to MNP respond to MNP by pricing more aggressively; firms facing large competitors respond less aggressively. Exploration of the model and its implications is an object of ongoing research.
Complementary Network Externalities and Technological Adoption
Author: Jeffrey ChurchNatural Monopolies in Digital Platform Markets
Author: Francesco DucciPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108491146
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Through three case studies, this book investigates whether digital industries are naturally monopolistic and evaluates policy approaches to market power.
Complications and Quandaries in the ICT Sector
Author: Ashish BharadwajPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811060118
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. With technology standards becoming increasingly common, particularly in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, the complexities and contradictions at the interface of intellectual property law and competition law have emerged strongly. This book talks about how the regulatory agencies and courts in the United States, European Union and India are dealing with the rising allegations of anti-competitive behaviour by standard essential patent (SEP) holders. It also discusses the role of standards setting organizations / standards developing organizations (SSO/SDO) and the various players involved in implementing the standards that influence practices and internal dynamics in the ICT sector. This book includes discussions on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing terms and the complexities that arise when both licensors and licensees of SEPs differ on what they mean by “fair”, “reasonable” and “non-discriminatory” terms. It also addresses topics such as the appropriate royalty base, calculation of FRAND rates and concerns related to FRAND commitments and the role of Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in collaborative standard setting process. This book provides a wide range of valuable information and is a useful tool for graduate students, academics and researchers.
The Regulation of Product Standards in World Trade Law
Author: Ming DuPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509931155
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This monograph has two central purposes. The first is to provide a critical analysis of how governmental, private and hybrid product standards are regulated in the GATT/WTO legal framework. The second purpose is to explore – both positively and normatively – the impact that WTO disciplines may have on the composition, function and decision-making process of various standard-setting bodies through the lens of a series of selected case studies, including: the EU eco-labelling scheme; ISO standards; and private standards such as the FSC. The book analyses what role, if any, the WTO may play in making product standards applied in international trade embody not only technological superiority but also substantive and procedural fairness such as deliberation, representativeness, openness, transparency, due process and accountability. Whilst it has been long recognised that voluntary product standards drawn up by both governmental and non-governmental bodies can in practice create trade barriers as serious as mandatory governmental regulations, a rigorous and systematic inquiry into the boundary, relevance and impact of WTO disciplines on product standards is still lacking. Providing a lucid interpretation of the relevant WTO rules and cases on product standards, this book fills this significant gap in WTO law literature. Definitive and comprehensive, this is an essential reference work for scholars and practitioners alike.
The Communications Industries in the Era of Convergence
Author: Catherine E. A. MulliganPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136622527
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This book provides a unique view of the evolution of these industries, drawing out how technology and economic forces have worked together to create platforms around which different companies interact. Through identifying the key aspects of this evolution over the past decades, the author is able to put forward a unique view of the emerging industrial structure of the communications industries – the formation of an Information-Driven Global Commodity Chain, one that holds both incredible promise and challenges for our world.