Carlos Merino Moreno

Finding Services and Business Models for the Next-Generation Networks

The growing demand in the use of mobile devices implies a huge investment by operators and infrastructure providers. However, these players have important questions when it comes to understanding how to finance these investments. ROI seems to be endangered by the new mobile ecosystem that has emerged during the last few years. Many factors threaten the potential of future income over the new infrastructures so there is huge need to find innovative ways of generating customer retention and traction, which in turn will lead to the generation of revenues that can build a profitable and healthy business around the nextgeneration networks. This research should be carried out before any investment is planned to have a clear picture of the financial implications of the new deployments. There is a strong need to understand customers’ new ways of technology consumption and plan how to provide this employing adequate services and business models. As a result of the way that the mobile industry has been developed, investment in advanced networks must be acquired primarily through private companies, for example, the network operators. Other sectors, like health, civil engineering or even fixed telephony have historically enjoyed a stronger intervention from the public sector as governments take on the basic infrastructure for their countries population. However, this was not the case for the mobile telephone industry, which was regarded as a private initiative, in spite of the fact that there were many incumbent players at the beginning of the industries development. Even in those cases, the industry rapidly opened to competition and new entrants from the non-public sector came into this promising new industry. Therefore, this established the basic condition for network evolution, all mobile industry investments must be aligned with clear business models to make them profitable. This has an immediate consequence; investments will not be forthcoming until there is a clear path to ROI. On the other hand, we are on the verge of a mobile infrastructure usage explosion. Customers demand more and more data services so that the old networks start to reach their limits or even collapse. Paraphrasing Shakespeare’s Hamlet: ‘To invest or not to invest? This is the question.’ A natural response to this question should be a clear “YES” if we are to apply the industry standards from the 80’s where unlimited booming was in place. But... things change.

CAPITAL INTELECTUAL EN LA ADMINISTRACIÓN PÚBLICA ESPAÑOLA: EL PROYECTO SICAP

El presente articulo analiza los aspectos principales que influyen la labor de la Funcion Publica y que enmarcan el nuevo papel de las administraciones publicas, como agentes de prestacion de servicios, dentro de los nuevos esquemas de interrelacion o espacios sociales que configura la citada Sociedad de la Informacion y del Conocimiento