This paper links communications and media usage to social and household economics boundaries. It highlights that in present day society, communications and media are a necessity, but not always affordable, and that they furthermore open up for addictive behaviors which raise additional financial...

While you refuel for gas, why not refuel for information or upload vehicle data, using a cheap wireless technology as WiFi? This paper analyzes in extensive detail the user segmentation by vehicle usage, service offering, and full business models from WiFi hot spot services delivered to and from...

The goal of the COST Action IS0605 “Econ@Tel” is to develop a strategic research in the crossdisciplinary field of Telecommunication Economics. This includes a multitude of different dimensions, which include: (a) a training network among key people/organizations in order to enhance...

This paper presents results on mass customization of wireless communications services and tariffs. It advocates for a user-centric view of wireless service configuration and pricing as opposed to present-day service catalogue options. The focus is on design methodology and tools for such...

Some COST 605 Action participating countries have contributed to a survey on the above subject. The focus is on: 1) social parameters , demographics / employment:/income of needy/poor people, and for measured or assumed mobile service usage and spending 2) cases of individual or groups of needy...

Recognizing the importance of privacy management as a business process and a businesssupport process, this paper proposes the use of service level agreements around privacyfeatures, including qualitative and quantitative ones. It also casts privacy management into abusiness perspective with...

In an earlier paper ,was discussed the necessary evolution from smart business networks, as based on process need satisfaction and governance, into business genetics [1] based on strategic bonds or decay and opportunistic complementarities. This paper will describe an approach and diffusion...

Warnings to the broad population in an emergency situation, irrespective of location and condition, is a public policy responsibility. Public wireless networks offer now the opportunity to deliver emergency warnings in this way with explanations, because in many countries the mobile penetration...

This paper gives an analytical method to determine the economic and indirect implications of denial of service and distributed denial of service attacks. It is based on time preference dynamics applied to the monetary mass for the restoration of capabilities, on long term investments to rebuild...

This paper summarizes key attributes and the uniqueness of smart business networks; it proposes thereafter an operational implementation architecture. It involves, amongst others, the embedding of business logic specific to a network of business partners, inside the communications control...