Comercio Electronico Global

standards, innovation system, market place, regulatory regime, interrelationships, actors, diffusion system, broadband mobile computing services, evolve, critical relationships Document Summary: Rapid developments in computing and communication technology have made broadband Internet service over the wireless phone networks possible. This so-called 3G - third generation - mobile services promise to usher us into an era of a seamless marriage between Internet data and mobile phone services. However, despite the much-hyped fanfare in the media, the actual diffusion of 3G services has been much slow and disappointing in most countries. South Korea has been one of one of few countries that have experienced rapid development and diffusion of 3G and the less-advanced 2.5G - two and half generation - mobile services. Given the rapid and ubiquitous penetration into everyday use in Korea, broadband mobile services in Korea offers an unique opportunity for us to examine how complex technology gets accepted in a larger scale. In this study, the authors seeks (a) to offer theoretical explanations for the pattern of diffusion of broadband mobile services in Korea and (b) to gain new theoretical insights on the diffusion of innovation of complex technology systems. In particular, we are interested in the role of standards and their impact on the diffusion of complex technology systems innovations. We use Anctor network Theory - ANT - as a theoretical lens to investigate the complex evolution of the broadband mobile services in Korea.

Informe de Competitividad Global del World Economic Forum 2003

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Ohio State University and Office of Policy Planning, Federal trade Commission.

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