Relatively little is known about adoption, use, and disadoption of new internet-based services. Using data from an Internet grocer in a market where it was the monopoly provider of this service, we examine customer adoption, use, and disadoption of online grocery shopping. We find that adoption was significant. In zip codes where the service was offered, 1-3 percent of households signed-up for ...

There has been a huge increase in the scale of distributed network service with the rising demand of serviceoriented Architecture (SOA), more and more alternative web services offered by different service providers becomes available over the internet to provide equivalent or similar-function for service user. It is estimated that there would be large number of web services developed, deployed i...

For developing countries, wireless networks seem to be the available alternative for providing affordable telecommunications services. In Iraq, the main governmental wireless Internet service provider is SCIS Company. It adopts WiMAX and WiFi wireless networks. Considering Quality of Service (QoS) as an indicator of network performance, it is a challenge for the Wireless Internet Services Provi...

Kebutuhan internet semakin meningkat seiring berkembangnya populasi pengguna internet. Saat ini jaringan telah masuk ke pelosok desa yang ada di seluruh negara Indonesia. Jaringan tersebut berupa RT RW net dikelola oleh penyedia jasa kecil. Menurut badan pusat statistik kabupaten cirebon terdapat 2740 tersebar 412 kecamatan, salah satu kecil adalah TN.Net bermitra pada Internet Service Provider...

In order to evaluate the operational efficiency of the Internet Company in China, this paper constructed the index system of the efficiency evaluation at first. Then we appraise the overall efficiency and variation tendency about Internet Company of China Based on DEA method from cross section data and temporal patterns. At the same time this paper classifies the Internet Company into three typ...

Below, we consider (Section 2) why simply making the existing 9-1-1 system in the United States work for VoIP is not satisfactory and only suitable as a stop-gap measure for those consumers who have migrated over to VoIP services as a replacement for their former POTS service and have every right to expect that substitute service to provide a comparable emergency response capability. We also co...

Consider a scenario where a service is provided to a set of users at a certain net cost. A natural question to ask is, how should one divide the cost amongst the users, i.e., what is a good pricing policy or a cost sharing scheme? Formally, let U be the set of users and C be the cost function that assigns a service cost C(S) to each S ⊆ U . It may help to keep the example of an internet service...

For Internet telephony systems, it is necessary to establish a connection between a caller and recipient using the Internet Protocol (IP) address before actual voice communication can take place. A problem of dynamic IP addressing arises when the connection to the Internet is made through an Internet Service Provider (ISP) since the IP address is dynamically allocated only at connection time. T...

In this paper we present our vision of the Internet Enterprise: a highly interoperable, virtual enterprise infrastructure for individuals, small businesses, and large corporations. In the Internet Enterprise (IE), any service provider can enable its business to be programmatically accessible on the Internet (becomes an e-service). Enabled by a scalable brokering service and an inter-organizatio...