5G for the Future of Telecommunications: How Innovation Platforms Redefine the Mobile Network Operators' Role

Lucrezia Mancini, Edoardo Meraviglia, Mattia Magnaghi, Antonio Ghezzi, Andrea Rangone

2025

Abstract

The paper addresses the transition process that Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) can undertake after the advent of 5G technology and the unique opportunities it introduces. It focuses on how seeing 5G as an innovation platform can support the strategic repositioning of these actors, enabling them to regain influence in the market, especially in the enterprise market. Therefore, an exploratory study of 8 cases was conducted, including different players of the 5G Italian telecommunication industry. Results show that industrial 5G has many common points with innovation platforms, being a promising technology that enables additional services and applications on top of it. The associations between 5G and innovation platforms offers a new perspective on the challenges and the ongoing dynamics for MNOs, highlighting the platform consolidation complexity and outlining potential future scenarios. The MNO is identified as a potential candidate to orchestrate the ecosystem, although this remains a prospective view. Finally, a framework is presented to picture the 5G landscape, offering strategic insights to maximize MNOs’ competitive advantage.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mancini L., Meraviglia E., Magnaghi M., Ghezzi A. and Rangone A. (2025). 5G for the Future of Telecommunications: How Innovation Platforms Redefine the Mobile Network Operators' Role. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-758-749-8, SciTePress, pages 899-906. DOI: 10.5220/0013470700003929

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis25,
author={Lucrezia Mancini and Edoardo Meraviglia and Mattia Magnaghi and Antonio Ghezzi and Andrea Rangone},
title={5G for the Future of Telecommunications: How Innovation Platforms Redefine the Mobile Network Operators' Role},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS},
year={2025},
pages={899-906},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013470700003929},
isbn={978-989-758-749-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS
TI - 5G for the Future of Telecommunications: How Innovation Platforms Redefine the Mobile Network Operators' Role
SN - 978-989-758-749-8
AU - Mancini L.
AU - Meraviglia E.
AU - Magnaghi M.
AU - Ghezzi A.
AU - Rangone A.
PY - 2025
SP - 899
EP - 906
DO - 10.5220/0013470700003929
PB - SciTePress