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标题：Introduction to Special Issue “Mobile Communications and Novel Business Models”
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作者：Petri Ahokangas ; Marja Matinmikko-Blue
期刊名称：Sustainability
印刷版ISSN：2071-1050
出版年度：2021
卷号：13
期号：2
页码：674
DOI：10.3390/su13020674
语种：English
出版社：MDPI, Open Access Journal
摘要：With the ongoing introduction of 5G, the fifth generation of mobile communications technologies, the mobile communications sector is facing disruption in regulative, business and technology domains [1]. Modern communications networks including 5G serve as the backbone for all digitalization in our society. Mobile communications networks are increasingly becoming virtualized and becoming multi-sided service platforms that facilitate an offering of tailored on-demand context, location- and customer-specific connectivity, and content services to meet versatile and localized end customer- and vertical-specific needs. These service platforms can be topped with various extended, complementary, and ancillary devices, systems and services that turn the business environment into an ecosystem. New opportunities brought about by technological innovation and regulatory developments call for novel, scalable, replicable, and societally, environmentally and economically sustainable [2] business models for the different stakeholders of the mobile ecosystem or industry. [...]