Huesig, Stefan and Hipp, Christiane (2009) The disruptive potential of Wi-Fi in the German hotspot market. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, 7 (6). pp. 615-631. ISSN 1470-949X,
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The disruptive potential of Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) is investigated in an empirical study of the German public hotspot market in 2003-2006. The results of our study suggest that primarily the incumbent Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) have taken advantage of the opportunity provided by Wi-Fi and the commercial hotspot market and dominated this submarket of wireless/mobile data services in Germany. Therefore, we categorise Wi-Fi as a sustaining technology based on the disruptive technology theory by Christensen (1997). These findings contradict the earlier predictions of Christensen et al. (2004) and others regarding Wi-Fi and suggest that the business model of stand-alone Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) will not be sustainable given the trend in the German commercial public hotspot market.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | TECHNOLOGY; COMPANIES; mobile communications; wireless fidelity; Wi-Fi; wireless local area network; WLAN; 802.11; mobile network operators; MNOs; wireless internet service providers; WISPs; public hotspots; disruptive technology |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
| Divisions: | Business, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre > Lehrstuhl für Innovations- und Technologiemanagement (Prof. Dr. Michael Dowling) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2020 12:56 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2020 12:56 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/29744 |
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