Based upon the very latest data available, the underlying premise of the book is that mobile telecommunications is such a fast-moving sector that operators are obliged to alter their international strategies as circumstances unravel without necessarily having a long-term master plan, and hence...

During the past decade, no industry has grown faster than that of mobile communications, yet coverage of its operations remains scarce. This state-of-the-art book examines the evolving structure and strategic behaviour of the thirty largest operators in the mobile communications industry. The...

Most of the literature on 5G has been in the form of standards, reports, and industry papers and articles. Because of this, researchers from non-scientific or non-engineering disciplines have struggled to understand how it is or could be operationalized and standardized across the globe. Here...

ch. 1. High-speed data transmission -- ch. 2. Spectrum issues -- ch. 3. Licensing of high-speed data networks -- ch. 4. High-speed data network launches -- ch. 5. Characterizing data services -- ch. 6. Issues in mobile industry structure : vendors -- ch. 7. The iPhone : a case study of...