In that paper we will describe a system for remotely monitoring of patients at home from the doctors at the hospital. In general, the @Home [AtH02] system can measure, collect, analyze and record health care data at a patient’s home and then subsequently send these data to the hospital using the global system for mobile communications (GSM) or PSTN telephone line. The paper is organized as foll...

This study investigates determinants that cause mobile phone customers to transit from being loyal to switching. By examining what keeps customers loyal, and then examining what provokes or entices the same customers to switch, the findings suggest that the transition from loyalty to switching may be due to changes in the underlying determinants as well as new determinants. The study concludes ...

The safety of mobile telephones is a pressing question, now that the brains of nearly half the humans on the planet have become exposed within a short span of time to a physical agent to which their ancestors’ genes could not have adapted. It is no surprise then that epidemiologists have taken an interest in possible health effects of microwave exposure from mobile telephony. Few had experience...

This paper uses panel data from African countries from 1992 to 2004 and a dynamic panel data (DPD) estimation method to investigate the demand for telephone services and the impact of telephone use on income growth in African countries. We find that telephone use has a positive and significant impact on income growth in African countries, all things equal. We also find that the demand for telep...

In recent years, mobile computing has enjoyed a tremendous rise in popularity. The continued miniaturization of mobile computing devices and the extraordinary rise of processing power available in mobile laptop computers combine to put more and better computer-based applications into the hands of a growing segment of the population. At the same time, the markets for wireless telephones and comm...

Mobile telephone service was first introduced to Japanese market in the mid-1980s and from then on, this area of business has shown a rapid growth of the number of the subscribers. However, recently, the mobile telephone market in Japan has become saturated. Most of the adult populations have at least one mobile phone set nowadays. Moreover, there are hardly any distinct differences in the qual...

The latest chapter in the annals of standardization skullduggery–or, so far, alleged standardization skullduggery– involves the Universal Mobile Telephone System (UMTS) standard. Broadcom Corp., a manufacturer of semiconductor ICs (chipsets) for communications applications, has sued Qualcomm Inc., another chipset manufacturer and the owner of patents essential to complying with the standard. Br...

This study conducted in Scotland focuses on the contextual factors that shape healthcare interpreters’ performance when they interpret over telephone. It draws findings of two focus groups (n = 5 and 7) a Scottish urban area 2017 among interpreters with experience telephone interpreting (TI). The participants shared their experiences TI as related to issues include (1) impact different equipmen...

This paper reviews the literature data on the genetic toxicology of radiofrequency (RF) radiation. Whereas in the past most studies were devoted to microwave ovens and radar equipment, it is now mobile telecommunication that attracts most attention. Therefore we focus on mobile telephone frequencies where possible. According to a great majority of the papers, radiofrequency fields, and mobile t...