Value Creation and Services in Mobile Communications

This chapter explores the opportunities for value creation via the services enabled by the fifth (5G) and sixth (6G) generation of mobile communications. The chapter starts with a discussion on value creation in general and discusses value creation at service, platform, and ecosystem levels of analysis. We present the 5G and 6G usage cases as starting points and highlight the drivers of value creation and the key services enabled by the mobile communications technology generations. In 5G, the focus is on deployments of public commercial networks, public commercial virtual networks, neutral hosts, private local networks operated by MNOs, private local networks operated by others than MNOs, and public network integrated non-public networks. In 6G, the focus is on new capability usage case candidates that will be represented by immersive communications, connecting intelligence, sensing for sustainability, and connecting the unconnected.