Mobile telephone systems are undergoing a substantial change from voice based systems which also support data transfer to become systems which truly support packet switched data services to mobile subscribers. This evolution towards the third generation (3G) mobile system will be based on the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) [1] and will begin with the General Packet Radio Service ...

field police officers operating in the district of Groningen North (Netherlands), equipped with PDAs through which they ubiquitously access information while on the move; students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (i.e. MIT, USA), equipped with laptops in a campus where wireless Internet connectivity is ubiquitous; all subscribers and roamers using their mobile phones in the Amsterda...

Mobile operators wishing to deploy higher-level value-added services face various costs attributable to the introduction of new software and hardware components into their networks. Considering that today’s wireless devices are becoming increasingly capable of running complex applications with server-like features, we could envision the case where mobile operators “outsource” value-added servic...

I n recent years, the demand for mobile Internet access has grown significantly. The number of pages viewed on the mobile Web browser Opera grew from 1.8 billion pages in January 2008 to 23 billion pages in January 2010.1 However, the 3G technology that promised mobile broadband hasn’t been widely successful because of its low transmission rate and high service costs. As of the third quarter of...

The ubiquitous presence of mobile communication devices and the continuous development of mobile data applications, which results in high level of mobile devices’ activity and exchanged data, often transparent to the user, makes privacy preservation an important feature of mobile telephony systems. We present a formal analysis of the UMTS Authentication and Key Agreement protocol, using the app...

This paper describes a possible solution how disaster management systems using mobile networks could serve as a basis for creating a standardized framework for privacy-friendly and worldwide interoperable location-based services. Positive network externalities can be realized by introducing intermediaries into today’s Location-based Services (LBS) architecture for achieving a higher degree of t...

This study analyzes Kurdistan’s potential for effectively using mobile telecommunication. It identifies key factors determining the adoption of mobile telecommunication service. A conceptual model is specified, and several hypotheses are tested with a sample of 1,458 Kurdish mobile phone users in 2010. A discrete choice methodology is used to test two models of mobile telecommunication acceptan...

This paper estimates demand for fixed-mobile bundles (quadruple play tariffs) using a database of subscribers to a single mobile operator from a single town in a European country which has full coverage with both ADSL and FTTH broadband technologies. Based on the demand estimation we find that consumer valuation of FTTH broadband in 2013 increased over time while ADSL lost on attractiveness rel...

the increasing penetration rate of mobile phone, with specific characteristics of this medium, such as almost everywhere with the audience, has attracted companies' attention to it as an advertising channel. mobile devices facilitate highly customized marketing communication in terms of person, time location and context so numbers of companies that use this medium for communicating with th...

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are in a unique position to utilize their vast transactional data assets generated from interactions of subscribers with network elements as well as with other subscribers. CSPs could leverage its data assets for a gamut of applications such as service personalization, predictive offer management, loyalty management, revenue forecasting, network capacity p...