The Fragmentation of Standards in Mobile Digital Broadcast Carriers

Author

Steen, Håkon Ursin

Author_Institution

Univ. of Oslo, Oslo

fYear

2007

fDate

9-11 July 2007

Firstpage

11

Lastpage

11

Abstract

A collection of standards (DVB-H, MediaFLO, DMB and others) compete globally for dominance as the standard radio carrier for mobile digital broadcasting. Based on outcomes of similar "standards wars", insights from multi-sided market theory and a set of structural (including political, regulatory, geographical and technical) constraints, it is argued that there is a significant drift towards a stable fragmentation (coexistence) of these standards. This is seen as an obstacle for the successful proliferation of the technology because of reduced possibility for economies of scale, lowered incentives for market entry and restrictions on handset roaming.

Keywords

broadcasting; mobile communication; telecommunication standards; communication standard fragmentation; mobile digital broadcast carriers; Constraint theory; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Digital video broadcasting; Economies of scale; Informatics; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Large-scale systems; Radio broadcasting; Roaming; Telephone sets;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Mobile Business, 2007. ICMB 2007. International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2803-1

Electronic_ISBN

0-7695-2803-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMB.2007.65

Filename

4278555