Emerging mobile business ecosystem driven by elastic sharing

Rationale: Due to a rising cost pressure on mobile operators, mobile network sharing is already a reality today Approach: A formal game-theoretic analysis justifies cooperative competition in mobile networks and confirms that the current industrial trend towards mobile network sharing is rational. Driver/enabler: The emerging ecosystem breaks down the vertically integrated market, as we know it today, into distinct roles, namely provisioning of physical resources, of virtual networks, and of over-the-top services, respectively, where virtual networks can be elastically compiled from multiple resource providers at a marketplace.