An Investigation of the Business Model in Karlskrona Municipal Wireless Network in Sweden
| Document type: | Conference Papers |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Zhe Yang, Saltanat Kamit, Abbas Mohammed, Peter Larson |
| Title: | An Investigation of the Business Model in Karlskrona Municipal Wireless Network in Sweden |
| Conference name: | 1st Workshop on Wireless Broadband Access for Communities and Rural Developing Regions - WIRELESS4D'08 |
| Year: | 2008 |
| City: | Karlstad, Sweden |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Engineering - Dept. of Signal Processing (Sektionen för teknik – avd. för signalbehandling) School of Engineering S- 372 25 Ronneby +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.tek.bth.se/ |
| Authors e-mail: | zya@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | In this paper, an investigation on an emerging operational "business model" for the municipal wireless network in the city of Karlskrona in Sweden is explored. We inquire into the association between of different actors involved in the business model implemented by Karlskrona municipality in our selected case study, and identify a number of key considerations in the business model and wireless city services for municipality when it is initializing and deploying the municipal wireless network as a business driven and public-utility driven service. |
| Subject: | Telecommunications\General Business Administration\Information Business Administration\Marketing |
| Keywords: | municipal wireless network, wireless city, business model, broadband access |
| Note: | Details of the conference are available at http://m4d.humanit.org/. Workshop is Co-located at 1st International Conference on "M4D" - Mobile Communication Technology for Development, http://m4d.humanit.org/ December 11-12, 2008, Karlstad University, Sweden. |
