This book contains the results of a symposium organized to ask what kind of future old and new players in the telecommunications industries will have given the dynamic changes in technologies and markets. The symposium combined perspectives from industrial practice and academic research originating from North America and Europe. Key issues featuring here are the technological drivers of change, changing market structures and business models, and the nature of future regulation on telecom markets.

InhaltsangabeWelcome.- Telecommunication Industries in Transition: Winning the Future through Innovation and Change.- All IP - All IT - All Wireless: The Drivers of Change.- Technology as Driver of Change in Telecommunications.- Market Structures and Business Models of the Future Consolidation or Persisting Turbulence - Monopolization or Fragmentation: What will Future Telco-Markets look like?.- Determinants of Future Market Success.- How Much and What Kind of Regulation Will be Needed in the Networked World of Tomorrow?.