this study investigates the factors affecting the brand loyalty of the customers of auto-mobile industry in region of pakistan with the use of ecsi model. a well-organized structured questionnaire was distributed among the customers of auto-mobile industry. the questionnaire was based on 5 point likert-type scale. results show that the customer expectations have a direct positive impact on perc...

the computer industry has defined the ieee 802.16 family of standards that will enable mobile devices to access a broadband network as an alternative to digital subscriber line technology. as the mobile devices join and leave a network, security measures must be taken to ensure the safety of the network against unauthorized usage by encryption and group key management. ieee 802.16e uses multica...

The deployment of new value-added mobile services has had mixed results in terms of adoption rates and revenue generation, despite the fact that mobile operators rely on such services for future growth, in view of saturated markets for the basic voice service. The paper suggests that innovation and growth in the mobile services industry largely depends on the extent to which structural conditio...

As the mobile phone industry converges with the IT/software industry, the emerging internetenabled multifunctional mobile devices are bringing together many diverse stakeholders. This paper examines the under-researched area of mobile application developers. We frame our study within the wider context of the mobile application industry in order to illustrate how the business models of large IT ...

Mobile IP proposed by IETF supports continuous services for a mobile node (MN) based on its capability to roam around foreign domains [1]. Recently the rapid growth of wireless technology and its use in coordination with the Internet require a very careful look at issues regarding the security. As a large portion of 785-million world Internet users access such technologies in the context of pro...

While the development of mobile services is experiencing a spectacular growth in many countries worldwide, existing regulatory regimes are ill equipped for dealing with them. In this paper, the authors use qualitative evidence to investigate the manner in which institutional regulatory factors, including legal, societal, and economic factors, can impact mobile services in the Australian mobile ...

In this paper I analyze the development and competitiveness of mobile telecommunications industry across the European Union. I estimate a reduced form and structural model of mobile industry using panel data for the EU countries in years 1998-2002. The competitiveness level is significantly influenced by the regulation policy. The regulation implemented throughout the liberalization process of ...

This paper studies the added values, both qualitative and quantitative that can be gained by using mobile devices at a construction industry. Some pilots have already been made in the Finnish construction industry that involves the usage of mobile devices. The problem is still to locate the “bottlenecks” that the construction industry has and find a suitable mobile solution that could help in t...