| Description |
1 online resource (358 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Global Competition |
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Studies in global competition.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; The Communications Industries in the Era of Convergence; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword 1; Foreword 2; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction to the communications industries; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 ICT and the world economy; 1.3 Outline of the book; Part I: Fundamentals of the communications industries; 2. Technical fundamentals; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Layers of computing and mobile networks; 2.3 Technical platforms; 2.4 Rates of change; 2.5 Conclusions; 3. Economic fundamentals; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Economic characteristics of communications industries |
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3.3 Economies of scale3.4 Industrial analysis; 3.5 Conclusions; Part II: Communications industries subsectors; 4. Semi-conductors; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Structure of the chapter; 4.3 Era one: setting the stage -- late 1950s and early 1960s; 4.4 Era two: global recession and cyclicality -- 1970s and 1980s; 4.5 Era three: digital mobile telephony -- 1990 to 2005; 4.6 Era four: broad-scale consumerisation of chipset platforms -2005 on; 4.7 Conclusions; Part IIA: The computing industry; 5. Computing platforms; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Structure of the chapter |
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5.3 Definitions -- computers, software and market share5.4 Setting the stage: information processing and the military; 5.5 Era one: 1960 to 1970 -- mainframes and vertical integration of hardware and software; 5.6 Era two: 1970 to 1980 -- mainframes, mini-computers and software companies; 5.7 Era three: 1980 to mid-1990s- competitive clash between platforms; 5.8 Era four: mid-1990s to 2005 -- internet, e-commerce and component-based architectures; 5.9 Conclusions; 6. Emerging cloud computing platforms; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Cloud computing as a utility; 6.3 Today's market; 6.4 Microsoft |
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6.5 Cloud computing value chain6.6 Conclusions; Part IIB: The telecommunications industry; 7. Mobile network platforms; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Structure of the chapter; 7.3 Setting the stage -- the pre-cellular telecommunications industry; 7.4 Spectrum; 7.5 Era one: 1980s -- analogue mobile networks; 7.6 Era two: 1990s -- digital switching and circuit switched data; 7.7 Era three: 2000s -- packet switched data, "multimedia" and Chinese competitors; 7.8 Conclusions; 8. The emerging mobile broadband platform; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 State of the market -- 2006-2010; 8.3 Technology evolution |
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8.4 Opening the operator platform8.5 The search for new markets: 2010 onwards; 8.6 Data analytics and the digital (wo)man; 8.7 Value chains of mobile broadband platforms; 8.8 Conclusions; 9. Mobile devices; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Chapter overview; 9.3 Mobile device platforms; 9.4 Era one: closed mobile handset platforms -- 1980s to mid-1990s; 9.5 Late 1990s to 2000s: partly configurable mobile handset platforms; 9.6 Mid-2000s onwards: open mobile handset platforms; 9.7 Conclusions; Part III: The converged communications industry; 10. Towards a converged communications industry |
| Summary |
This book provides a unique view of the evolution of these industries, drawing out how technology and economic forces have worked together to create platforms around which different companies interact. Through identifying the key aspects of this evolution over the past decades, the author is able to put forward a unique view of the emerging industrial structure of the communications industries -- the formation of an Information-Driven Global Commodity Chain, one that holds both incredible promise and challenges for our world |
| Notes |
10.1 Introduction |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Telecommunication -- Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
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Computer industry -- Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
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Telecommunication -- Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203801277 |
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020380127X |
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