The Business Model Innovation of Mobile Operators: A Case Study on ADC/MAS Model of China Mobile

Author

Wu, Xiaobo ; Zhang, Xiaochu ; Chen, Xiaoling

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2010

fDate

29-31 July 2010

Firstpage

96

Lastpage

99

Abstract

The coming of 3G era, bringing wider bandwidth and higher transmission rate, has also given many challenges to mobile operators. Mobile operators´ monopoly role in the value chain has been weakened. In order to create new value and consolidate of monopoly role, mobile operators have to change the existing business model. This paper reviews the articles of the value chain and business model of m-commerce to disclosure the importance of business model innovation to mobile operators in the m-commerce value network. Since there is little consensus on how to conduct business model innovation, this thesis suggests that it can be expressed as a combination of three basic types of innovation. And introduce a new value generating business model based on ADC/MAS model of China mobile provide to enterprises with low/high penetration of information.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; computer centres; corporate modelling; electronic commerce; file servers; mobile agents; mobile computing; 3G mobile communication; ADC-MAS model; China mobile; application data center; business model innovation; m-commerce value network; mobile agent server; mobile operators; value chain network; Biological system modeling; Business; Computational modeling; Industries; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Technological innovation; business model innovation; mobile operators; value network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Commerce and Security (ISECS), 2010 Third International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Guangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8231-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8231-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISECS.2010.29

Filename

5557428