The Role of Wireless Access Interconnection in Mobile e-Commerce Industry Evolution

Abstract

This paper identifies 8 wireless access technologies that can be expected to be deployed for e-commerce applications in the next 1-3 years and shows that they have sufficiently diverse characteristics that users and network operators need to interconnect among them. The paper analyzes the role of those interconnections under three scenarios for the evolution of the industry structure: the status quo, and oligopolies of either network operators or portal operators.