We investigated the risk of, prognosis of and symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) among all Danish residents who owned a mobile phone subscription before 1996. Using the Danish Multiple Sclerosis Registry and Civil Registration System, study subjects were followed up for MS through 2004. Poisson models were used to calculate incidence rate ratios (IRR, age range: 18-64 years) and mortality rate...

Mobile telecommunications as an intensely competitive industry in the contemporary marketing context has expanded a high-velocity service throughout world. The purpose of study is to recognise major determinants which affect customer loyalty mobile and examine degree impact on loyalty. phone subscribers were selected unit analysis study. A structured questionnaire was administered sample 755 su...

Delivering multimedia services to roaming subscribers raises significant challenges for content providers. There are a number of reasons for this; however, the principal difficulties arise from the inherent differences between the nature of mobile computing usage, and that of its static counterpart. The harnessing of appropriate contextual elements pertaining to a mobile subscriber at any given...

Now a days mobile device became a necessity for the people and with this 3G network service consumer can watch he video program by subscribing data plans from the various service providers. Due to heavy use of mobile phones and phone-to-phone communication , data-plan subscribers can redistribute the video content to nonsubscribers which is avery vital problem to the service provider. Here they...

Taiwan deregulated its wireless telecommunication services in 1997. Fierce competition followed, and churn management becomes a major focus of mobile operators to retain subscribers via satisfying their needs under resource constraints. One of the challenges is churner prediction. Through empirical evaluation, this study compares various data mining techniques that can assign a “propensity-to-c...

Demand for network capacity continues to escalate as mobile subscribers get accustomed to using more data-rich and video-oriented services from their increasingly sophisticated devices. Deployments of 4th generation LTE/LTE-A mobile networks are poised to boost that demand even further as they promise to deliver subscribers a wireline experience in their wireless networks. In light of the signi...

In the context of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, publish/subscribe middleware is gaining momentum due to its loosely coupled communication scheme. In this paper we present Q, a publish/subscribe service conceived to operate in the context of mobile ad hoc networks. With Q, the overlay network that routes events from publishers to subscribers dynamically adapts itself to the changing topolo...

The wireless networking has attracted much interest in past decades, owing to its high mobility. People can connect their devices such as PDAs, mobile phones or computers to a network by radio signals anywhere in home, garden or office without the need for wires. The global growth of mobile subscribers is much faster than wireline ones, as the Figure 1 shows (Yungsoo et al., 2003). The number o...

This study relies on a customer demand-based view to examine how mobile number portability affects competition in the Korean mobile telecommunications market. Using a contingent valuation method, we investigate 1,161 subscribers’ willingness to pay for mobile number among the subscribers to service providers. Unlike previous studies on number portability, the introduction of number portability ...