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Business Models for the Public WLAN Market

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Wirtschaftsinformatik 2003/Band I

Abstract

WLAN is a radical technology, enabling new ways to provide mobile access. A number of established and new companies have entered the mobile market with new business models. It is yet not clear how these new business models affect the mobile industry and which of them will really succeed. In our article, we introduce a new framework to support the development of new business models driven by new and radical technologies and apply it to the WLAN technology.

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  1. University of Bremen, Deutschland

    Amar Shubar & Ulrike Lechner

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  1. Technische Universität Dresden Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 01069, Dresden, Deutschland

    Wolfgang Uhr (Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Informationssysteme in Industrie und Handel), Werner Esswein (Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Systementwicklung) & Eric Schoop (Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Informationsmanagement) (Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Informationssysteme in Industrie und Handel),  (Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Systementwicklung) &  (Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Informationsmanagement)

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Shubar, A., Lechner, U. (2003). Business Models for the Public WLAN Market. In: Uhr, W., Esswein, W., Schoop, E. (eds) Wirtschaftsinformatik 2003/Band I. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57444-3_10

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