Adoption and Deployment of a New Major Wireless Technology: The Mobile Telephone 5G. A Provisional Overview
Abstract
This research aims to contribute to the task of explaining the factors involved in the design and the use of 5th generation mobile telephony technology by examining the constraints and conditions that determine the vertical innovation, i.e. the launch and deployment of 5th generation mobile telephony technology worldwide, with a particular focus on Europe. The ultimate objective is to build up an overview of this launch and deployment in order to make the numerous reports and studies of specialised international organisations available to the academic world - teachers but also students - and to the political decision-makers concerned. The research takes a perspective which emphasises economic and business issues as well as the strategy, a topic sometimes neglected by scholars. The text is structured in four main sections, which comprise the constraints and conditions, including technology and regulation, the way to 5G, investment, expenditure and costs, the deployment of this technology around the world and in Europe and, finally, a first approach to Europe's backwardness.
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