The formation and evolution of digital service platforms is changing the balance of powers in the ICT industry. In particular, telecommunications operators feel the need to gain more control over the creation and provision of new services and to revise their roles in different service...

The growing customer demand for next-generation access networks requires large investments into novel broadband infrastructures. Politicians, scientists and practitioners have been discussing the question if cooperation between today's broadband carriers can contribute to a cooperative setup of...

In this paper we present a value-oriented modeling approach fort he assessment of the QoS interconnected market. This approach is based on the economics of two-sided markets and takes cross-side market externalities between networks into account. The presented model comes along with a realistic...

The value chain of the telecommunication industry is subject to a continuing disintegration which is caused by outsourced network operation, the provisioning of wholesale interfaces to competing service providers and the cooperative provisioning of broadband access. Thus, many companies regard...

Die Rolle von 3D-Modellen hat sich für Unternehmen, die sich auf die Wertschöpfung im Bereich der physischen und virtuellen Konsumgüter konzentrieren, in den vergangenen Jahren erheblich verändert. Für herstellende und Handelsunternehmen stellen virtuelle Produkte heute für die Entwicklung...