BACKGROUND The Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts outreach for public preparedness for natural and manmade incidents. In 2011, OPHPR conducted a nationwide mobile public health (m-Health) campaign that pushed brief videos on preparing for severe winter weather onto cell phones, with the objective of evaluating the...

Society 5.0 represents an opportunity to transform the economy and create a digital society with goal of long-term sustainable development economic growth. There is growing importance boosting ICT as effective efficient means achieving this transformation, Target 9c UN Sustainable Development Goals ‘Significantly increase access information communications technology strive provide universal aff...

This paper discusses the application of management domains as a means of specifying and controlling the services a subscriber is entitled to use in an international cellular network. The Pan European Cellular Network is made up of multiple network vendors in different countries offering a variety of services. Domains provide the means of grouping network resources or subscribers in order to spe...

Mobile Jukebox is a service offered by mobile operators to their clients, such that subscribers can buy or download anywhere, anytime fulllength music tracks over the 3G Mobile networks. Unlike some music download services, the subscribers can reuse the selected tracks on their music players or computers. As the amount of online music grows rapidly, Jukebox providers employ automatic recommende...

Using data of 11526 residential postpaid subscribers of the German subsidiary of a multinational mobile network operator (MNO) extracted from the firm’s customer and billing records, this investigation empirically examines the association between monthly mobile Internet (MI) data traffic volume generated by consumers and their monthly number of SMS sent at the withinand between-subjects levels ...

The challenge of supporting rapidly growing numbers of mobile subscribers, while constrained by limited radio spectrum, is being met through increasingly smaller radio cells. This, however, results in increased signalling for location management procedures, which reduces the bandwidth available for user traffic. Location areas in current systems, such as GSM, consist of static and arbitrarily-d...

The mobile telecommunications service industry has become one of the most dynamic and vibrant industries in contemporary business context. phone plays an essential role by revolutionizing consumer behaviour creating a new fashion life. Identifying determinants customer satisfaction drawn greater interest among marketers due to vibrancy services severe competition industry. However, studies rela...

This paper compares traditional location management, which focuses on tracking mobile subscribers in the topology of a cellular network, with position management, which we define to be a set of functions for tracking mobile targets in terms of geographic positions as needed for LBSs. As the air interface is the most limited resource in a mobile network, location management has been optimized wi...

Telecommunication switches implement overload controls to maintain call throughput and delay at acceptable levels during periods of high load. Existing work has mostly focused on controls under sustained overload–they do not meet the demands of modern telecommunication systems where the increased number of services and mobile subscribers often creates fast changing hot spots. We introduce new a...

Mobile devices are becoming increasingly popular, having already reached over 1.5 billion mobile subscribers. Although progress has been made in terms of technological innovations, usability challenges still face m-Business (mobile business) application. This paper explores how the context of use impacts the usability of mobile devices. An empirical study was undertaken to investigate the impac...