The Research on Telecommunication Industry Business Ecosystem

On the transformation of China's telecommunication operators, this paper builds a structure of the industry's ecosystem and value-net model, and further identifies key resources in this ecosystem, including standardization, core technology, customer base and brand names. The conclusion is that an operator's competitive advantage not only depends on its own strength, but also on its capability of collaboration. That is, whichever operator can best collaborate with others in the ecosystem, will also be able to best integrate resources, and thus establish a self-centered ecosystem and obtain a sustainable advantage.