Value Added Services VAS in Mobile-Phone-Networks, found its way to TV & Radio stations through the benefits from the huge audience or followers they got. Also the traditional media decides to get advantages of VAS services and consider it as a new revenue source. The traditional TV & Radio stations and the mobile phone network based on 3G technologies and beyond, both get dramatic changes by t...

Satellite phone services use advanced technology to deliver phone service around the world. Although technologically advanced, satellite phone companies have not captured a substantial share of competitive mobile phone markets nor returned large profits to investors. In this case study, we examine why Iridium, a major satellite phone service provider, fell short of analyst’s expectations and fa...

B the deregulation of digital subscriber line (DSL) services by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2005, phone companies were required to share their DSL bandwidth with independent DSL providers. Despite the large number of independent providers that entered the market, phone companies accounted for 95.3% of all DSL subscribers in 2005. A common explanation for this is based on supp...

Adoption of mobile data services may be analyzed within the framework of two-sided markets. Service or content providers should adopt platforms for developing, integrating and distributing mobile services and end-users should adopt the offered services as well as the user platform offered. These two markets are often analyzed separately using different theoretical perspectives and models. In th...

background: the health effect of rapidly increasing everyday exposure of humans to radiofrequency radiation is a major global concern. mobile phone jammers prevent the mobile phones from receiving signals from base stations by interfering with authorized mobile carriers’ services. in spite of the fact that mobile jammer use is illegal, they are occasionally used in offices, shrines, conference ...

This study contributes to the mobile commerce literature by investigating the moderating roles of demographic variables, namely age, income, and gender, in forming perceptions and behavioral outcomes with regards to mobile phone services. To this end, hypotheses and research questions are developed and structural equation modeling techniques are applied to a dataset of 1,253 mobile phone users ...