2.15 billion mobile phone users in the world and there are 50 million subscribers in Pakistan. The more mobile devices are sold, the more mobile services are developed and downloaded. Location Based Services (LBS) is one of those popular technologies. It provides valuable information based on user's location such as nearest gas station for drivers and nearest ATM in the vicinity, road route sel...

the main objective of this paper is to argue how the mobile phones have transformed the iranian lifestyle and how the arrival of mobiles has been a catalyst for revolting behavior, and has launched a new consumer behavior and has changed our relationships. the paper explains how the people's behavior has developed a whole new social code in iran. it is argued that the social value of being able...

No handset-based data on mobile subscriber behavior have been available earlier. The new monitoring software developed for Symbian smartphones provides a possibility for the fist time to obtain accurate usage-level data, making both descriptive comparisons and strict statistical analyses on various usage-level factors viable. The study finds that the WCDMA technology has positive effects on the...

The mobile phone industry has experienced an explosive growth in recent years. Mobile phone subscriber numbers have passed the 1.6 billion mark at the end of 2004. The emerging markets such as China, India, and Brazil contribute this growth. In China, the number of mobile subscribers has already surpassed the number of fixed landline phone subscribers. In Korea, the number of mobile phone Inter...

The mobile phone industry has experienced an explosive growth in recent years. Mobile phone subscriber numbers have passed the 1.6 billion mark at the end of 2004. The emerging markets such as China, India, and Brazil contribute this growth. In China, the number of mobile subscribers has already surpassed the number of fixed landline phone subscribers. In Korea, the number of mobile phone Inter...

The growth of mobile communications has been phenomenal. At the start of the last decade there were just over 10 million mobile cellular telephone subscribers around the world. At the beginning of 2001, this figure had grown almost 70 times to over 700 million. Around one in ten people around the world now owns a mobile phone. The number of mobile subscribers will surpass the number of fixed te...

India is the fastest growing mobile subscribers market in the world with more than 850 million subscribers. Mobile phones have become an important component in Indian household. m-Governance is envisaged to propel the functioning of the government, at the next higher level. In this paper, we analyze the true potential of m-Governance in the Indian scene. Also, we examine the areas where the e-G...

An undeniable mobile billing system allows a mobile network service provider to bill its subscribers with trustworthy evidences. Chen, Jan and Chen proposed such a billing system by introducing a trusted third party – Observer and exploiting a hash chain mechanism. In their system, the Observer provides call time evidence to both cellular carriers and subscribers for billing. In this paper, we ...