Virtual Internet Service Provider: Be Small and Act Big
Dr. Sathya Rao, Eric Mannie-Corbisier, Leszek Siwik
Technologies (ICT) in every one’s day to day activities and the business. As ICT technologies are constantly evolving, many people attribute the success of enterprises to the ways they deploy and take advantage of new technologies, not only to make their operations more efficient but most importantly to refine and adopt new effective and adaptive business models. Since the advent of the Internet and the very first Internet Service Providers (ISP) in operation, the traditional ISP market has been in constant evolution due to the gradual globalisation and commoditisation of ISP services. Deregulation and ICT policies have fostered competition (e.g. unbundling of the local loop and so forth) as well. The Internet is as an important channel of interaction inside and/or outside enterprises. The essence of the Internet is conducting business and running of business processes over data communication networks based on non-proprietary standards. The World Wide Web represents a major communication platform accessed through communication channels provisioned by network and service providers (such as ISDN, DSL, WLAN, UMTS, etc..). There are many challenging aspects of the eBusiness that must be considered for a sustainable business of an ISP. Among such significant aspects the following have to be taken into consideration:
- The impact of business globalisation: most organisations are coping with the globalisation of the economy and the importance to be present at many markets.
- The introduction of new communication technologies and channels forces organisations to revise the way they conduct business
- The increased end user or customer mobility obliges organisations to propose tailored service offers adapted to new conditions..
- The digitalisation of the entire economy is represented by several interaction channels
Small and Medium size Enterprises (SME) being backbone of the national economy and creative business development, it is important to develop the flexible platform so that skills and expertise of SMEs can be used in the global business model, for competitive solutions development. This paper identifies the business models and business scenarios with such a cluster of SMEs acting as a Virtual Internet Service Provider (VISP)
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