TY - JOUR
T1 - Korea's strategies for mobile technology standards in smart ecosystem
AU - Kwak, Jeong Ho
AU - Lee, Jemin Justin
AU - Lee, Bong Gyou
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Prior to the introduction of smartphones, South Korea's mobile market had already recognised the early construction of 3.5G technology HSDPA, WiBro, commercial networks, and advanced networks as an important strategy to gain competitive advantage over the market. With the emergence of a smart ecosystem, however, the competition over 4G technical standards is considered to be vital for securing the mobile operating systems and collaborations with participants within the ecosystem, such as the alliances between the devices and content providers. Thus, departing from the viewpoint that a mobile carrier-led network is required to make constant investments and improvements to help create a competitive advantage over the market. Hence, this study targets South Korea's mobile market, to analyse the different 4G mobile standard technologies that were simultaneously commercialised for the first time in the world, to examine the mobile carriers' strategies to dominate the 4G technical standards with the introduction of smartphones, and to provide implications derived from the study.
AB - Prior to the introduction of smartphones, South Korea's mobile market had already recognised the early construction of 3.5G technology HSDPA, WiBro, commercial networks, and advanced networks as an important strategy to gain competitive advantage over the market. With the emergence of a smart ecosystem, however, the competition over 4G technical standards is considered to be vital for securing the mobile operating systems and collaborations with participants within the ecosystem, such as the alliances between the devices and content providers. Thus, departing from the viewpoint that a mobile carrier-led network is required to make constant investments and improvements to help create a competitive advantage over the market. Hence, this study targets South Korea's mobile market, to analyse the different 4G mobile standard technologies that were simultaneously commercialised for the first time in the world, to examine the mobile carriers' strategies to dominate the 4G technical standards with the introduction of smartphones, and to provide implications derived from the study.
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U2 - 10.1504/IJAMC.2017.084097
DO - 10.1504/IJAMC.2017.084097
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85019223300
VL - 7
SP - 20
EP - 28
JO - International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication
JF - International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication
SN - 1462-4613
IS - 1
ER -