info: Volume 18 Issue 5

European mobile markets and the doctrine of “4 networks good, 3 networks bad”

Peter Curwen, Jason Whalley

In light of the recent European Commission decisions that clearly favour the maintenance of a four-network structure in European mobile markets, the purpose is to provide an…

Corporate social responsibility: the case of the telecommunications sector

Ewan Sutherland

The paper aims to examine the reporting of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the telecommunications sector and to consider how the obligations and regulations imposed on…

Cost efficiency of SDN-enabled service function chaining

Nan Zhang, Heikki Hämmäinen, Hannu Flinck

This paper models the cost efficiency of service function chaining (SFC) in software-defined LTE networks and compares it with traditional LTE networks.

An ecosystem view on third party mobile payment providers: a case study of Alipay wallet

Jie Guo, Harry Bouwman

To understand why the penetration of handset-based mobile payment in most countries is still low has been an important research topic for the last 15 years, and it has been…

Integrating Big Data in “e-Oman”: opportunities and challenges

Stuti Saxena, Sujeet Kumar Sharma

This paper aims to integrate Big Data in e-government in Oman, also known as “e-Oman”, wherein Big Data might be better harnessed to tackle real-time challenges.

Spectrum licensing, policy instruments and market entry. A comment

Peter Curwen, Jason Whalley

Apple in a strategic bind: A regular column on the information industries

Peter Curwen