Dear Colleagues,

With the introduction and deployment of the 5^th generation mobile communications technologies (5G), businesses are underway a disruption not only from technological perspective, but especially from the business and related regulative perspectives. Mobile communications networks are increasingly turning virtualized and becoming multi-sided service platforms that facilitate the offering of tailored on-demand context, location and customer specific connectivity and content services to meet versatile end customer and vertical specific needs. These service platforms can be topped with various extended, complementary and ancillary devices, systems and services that turn the businesses environment into an ecosystem.

Communications networks serve as the backbone for digitalization. New opportunities brought about by technological innovation and regulatory developments call for novel scalable, replicable and societally, environmentally and economically sustainable business models for different stakeholders of the mobile ecosystem or industry. This special issue is multidisciplinary in nature and seeks to publish conceptual, theoretical and empirical studies that consider the interrelated business, regulation and/or technology aspects of mobile communication networks. Contributions can for example utilize the business model and ecosystem concepts as approaches to explore the mobile businesses, address regulations related challenges, or look into the deployment of mobile networks from techno-economic perspectives. Topics of interest might include, but are not limited to:

• What kind of novel business models and ecosystems could emerge within mobile communications networks for different users (consumers, verticals, etc.) in different places?
• How scalability, replicability and sustainability may influence business models within mobile communications?
• How business model innovation may influence sustainability in mobile communications?
• How could the changes and innovations in the regulatory and/or technological domains influence the mobile communications ecosystems and/or business models?
• How could the sustainable development goals (SDGs) be taken into account in mobile communications sector?

Adj. Prof. Dr. Petri Ahokangas
Adj. Prof. Dr. Marja Matinmikko-Blue
Guest Editors

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• 5G
• Novel Business models
• Ecosystems
• Mobile communications
• Telecommunication