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Motivations, Design and Business Models of Wireless Community Networks

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In this paper we provide an integrated presentation of applications, technologies and business models for wireless community network together with design considerations and examples. An overview is given of the state-of-the-affairs of wireless community networks. Driving forces and stakeholders of the projects and the applications and services will be presented for some carefully selected cases. We suggest a design methodology and illustrate its application to an ongoing digital city project in Hungary. Relevant business models are also analyzed.

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Acknowledgments

The work presented in this paper was partially supported by a Hungarian Government grant 7-2007-006 within the “Baross” Programme and by the CASCADAS EU FP6 project.

The authors are grateful to Alessandro Zorer, Create-Net, Italy and Paul A. Farkas, CEIT, Austria for providing data and discussing the T.Net and Digital Győr projects, respectively.

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  1. Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Magyar Tudosok krt. 2., H-1117, Budapest, Hungary

    Csaba Szabó & Zoltán Horváth

  2. Institute of Informatics and Economics, University of West Hungary, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky u. 9., H-9400, Sopron, Hungary

    Károly Farkas

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Szabó, C., Farkas, K. & Horváth, Z. Motivations, Design and Business Models of Wireless Community Networks. Mobile Netw Appl 13, 147–159 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-008-0031-y

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