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Project ended

COIN project has ended. The work continues in the MoMIE project.

Project overview

COIN is a two-year national project (2006-2007), continuing and expanding the work initiated in the earlier LEAD project (2004-2005).

COIN aims to improve the techno-economic understanding of the dynamics of the national mobile and wireless services market. The key stakeholders of the Finnish mobile market are involved in the project, and the results will contribute to both regulatory and strategic planning.

Current research activities

Our research activities currently include the following:

People

We are part of the Networking Laboratory at the Helsinki University of Technology.

The members of our team are:

Partners

The project is a collaboration effort of several national partners, who are also funding the research:

COIN Seminar, November 2007

COIN project arranged a seminar for project partners on November 27, 2007. The seminar program and presentations are shown here.

COIN Seminar, February 2007

COIN project arranged a seminar for project partners on February 27, 2007. The seminar program and presentations are shown here.

Publications

Journal Papers

  1. H. Verkasalo, Measurement of Smartphone Service Evolution in Finland, Journal of Targeting, Measurement & Analysis in Marketing, 2008 (bib)
  2. H. Verkasalo, Dynamics of Mobile Service Adoption, Journal of E-Business Research, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 40-63, 2008 (bib)(abstract)
  3. H. Verkasalo, Handset-Based Measurement of Mobile Service Demand and Value, INFO: The Journal of Policy, Regulation, and Strategy, 2008 (bib)
  4. E. Kivisaari, T. Autio, T. Smura and H. Hämmäinen, Operator Roles in Mobile Broadcast, Nordic and Baltic Journal of Information and Communication Technologies, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 48-60, 2008 (link)(bib)
  5. H. Verkasalo and H. Hämmäinen, A Handset-Based Platform for Measuring Mobile Service Usage, INFO: The Journal of Policy, Regulation, and Strategy, vol. 9, no. 1, 2007 (bib)
  6. H. Hämmäinen, Finland Counting on DVB-H, Nordic and Baltic Journal of Information and Communication Technologies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 12-15, 2007 (bib)
  7. R. Kumar and H. Hämmäinen, Competition in International Mobile Roaming: Alternative Clusters, COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES, vol. 3rd Quarter 2007, no. 67, pp. 151-172, 2007 (bib)
  8. M. Tallberg, H. Hämmäinen, J. Töyli, S. Kamppari and A. Kivi, Impacts of handset bundling on mobile data usage: The case of Finland, Telecommunications Policy, vol. 31, pp. 648-659, 2007 (bib)
  9. T. Smura, A. Kiiski and H. Hämmäinen, Virtual operators in the mobile industry: A techno-economic analysis, NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking, vol. 8, 1-2, pp. 25-48, 2007 (link)(bib)(abstract)

Conference Papers

  1. H. Verkasalo, Handset-Based Estimation of Mobile VoIP Demand, in ICICWS, Hongkong, 2008 (bib)
  2. M. Tallberg, H. Hämmäinen and J. Töyli, Teaching Service Competition through Mobile Operator Business Game, in Learning with Games 2007, 24-26 Sepember, 2007, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2007 (bib)
  3. H. Verkasalo, Empirical Insights on the Evolution of the Finnish Mobile Market, in 6th Conference on Telecommunication Techno-Economics (CTTE 2007), 14-15 June, 2007, Helsinki, Finland, 2007 (bib)
  4. H. Verkasalo, Contextual Usage-Level Analysis of Mobile Services, in The 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2007). August 6-10, 2007 - Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2007 (bib)
  5. H. Verkasalo, Empirical Findings on the Mobile Internet and E-Commerce, in 20th Bled e Conference: eMergence: Merging and Emerging Technologies, Processes, and Institutions. Bled, Slovenia, June 4 - 6, 2007, 2007 (bib)
  6. A. Kivi, Measuring Mobile User Behavior and Service Usage: Methods, Measurements Points, and Future Outlook, in 6th Global Mobility Roundtable, 1-2 June 2007, Los Angeles, California, U.S., 2007 (bib)
  7. A. Kivi, Mobile Data Adoption in Finland 2005-2006, in 6th Conference on Telecommunication Techno-Economics (CTTE 2007), 14-15 June, 2007, Helsinki, Finland, 2007 (bib)
  8. A. Kivi, Diffusion and Usage of Mobile Browsing in Finland 2005-2006, in 4th CICT Conference, 29-30 November, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007 (bib)
  9. H. Verkasalo and H. Hämmäinen, Handset-Based Monitoring of Mobile Subscribers, in Mobility Roundtable, 1-2 June, 2006, Helsinki, Finland, 2006 (pdf)(bib)
  10. H. Hämmäinen, H. Verkasalo and A. Kivi, Usage Patterns of Mobile Subscribers: Regulatory Observations in Finland, in 16th Biennial ITS Conference, 12-16 June, 2006, Beijing, China, 2006 (pdf)(bib)
  11. T. Smura, A. Kiiski and H. Hämmäinen, Techno-Economic Analysis of Mobile Virtual Network Operators: Strategies, Investments, and Revenues, in 5th Conference on Telecommunication Techno-Economics, 8-9 June 2006, Athens, Greece, 2006 (bib)
  12. A. Kiiski, Impacts of MVNOs on Mobile Data Service Market, in 17th European Regional ITS Conference, August 22-24, 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2006 (bib)
  13. T. Smura, Competition between Emerging Wireless Network Technologies: Case HSPA vs. WiMAX in Europe, in 17th European Regional ITS Conference, August 22-24, 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2006 (pdf)(bib)(abstract)
  14. H. Verkasalo, Mobile Data Service Evolution - Empirical Implications from Europe and the USA, in 3rd International CICT Conference, November 30 - December 1, 2006, Denmark, 2006 (bib)
  15. H. Verkasalo, Empirical Observations on the Emergence of Mobile Multimedia Services in the U.S. and Europe, in The 5th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. December 4-6, 2006, Stanford University, California, 2006 (bib)

Theses

  1. K. Lindqvist, Mobile VoIP - Industry scenario analysis of the future mobile voice market, Master's thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 2007 (bib)
  2. T. Autio, Broadcast Mobile Television Service in Finland: A Techno-Economic Analysis, Master's thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 2007 (pdf)(bib)
  3. A. Kiiski, Impacts of Virtual Operators on Mobile Market, Licentiate thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 2007 (pdf)(bib)
  4. A. Kivi, Mobile Internet usage measurements - Case Finland, Master's thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 2006 (pdf)(bib)
  5. H. Verkasalo, A Cross-Country Comparison of Mobile Service and Handset Usage, Licentiate thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 2006 (bib)

Book Chapters

  1. T. Smura, H. Hämmäinen, T. Rokkas and D. Katsianis, Techno-economic analysis of fixed WiMAX network deployments, in Mobile WiMAX - Toward Broadband Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks, New York: Auerbach Publications, 2008 (bib)

Other Documents

  1. A. Kivi, Mobile Data Service Usage Measurements - Results 2005-2007, 2008, project report (pdf)(bib)
  2. H. Verkasalo, Mobile service adoption - drivers and bottlenecks, 2007, Working paper (bib)
  3. A. Kivi, Mobile Data Service Usage Measurements - Results 2005-2006, 2007, project report (pdf)(bib)
  4. H. Verkasalo, Finnish Smartphone Study 2006 - Results, 2007, project report (pdf)(bib)

Other TKK / Netlab publications

Other TKK / Networking Laboratory publications can be found in our publication database.

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