this paper estimates demand functions for wireless and wireline phone, using almost ideal demand system (aids) and attempts to test the hypothesis of substitutability between wireless and wireline in iran. the results indicate that the number of mobile subscribers has been growing more than the number of wireline subscribers over studied period. this maybe because of lower price of mobile acces...

Mobile data services are entering into all aspects of people’s life and are expected to be an important revenue source of telecom carriers. Nevertheless, the acceptance pace of mobile data services is slower than the expected level projected by the telecommunication industry. This research investigated the reason that people use mobile data services in China. Combined with subscribers’ experien...

future increase of mobile communication subscribers will require a great capacity expansion of the cellular systems. in order to accommodate the increasing number of subscribers, the cell size will have to be much smaller than current size. therefore, it is predictable that the location updating and paging procedures will produce a major part of signaling traffic in these networks. this pape...

This study aims to examine the relationship between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment, attitude and subscribers’ intention towards using 3G mobile services. Cross sectional data were collected through a survey and analysed by means of factor analysis, correlation and regression analysis. Out of 150 questionnaires only 100 were usable. Findings show that Perceived ...

This study intends to investigate the relationships of communication effectiveness, trust, technical quality, functional quality, and relationship commitment in the context of the prepaid and post-post subscribers of a major private telecommunication company of Bangladesh. It presents a critical appraisal of some important antecedents of subscribers’ relationship commitment to the respective mo...

According to [1], the number of mobile subscribers worldwide increased from 300 million in 1997 to 800 millions in 2001. It is predicted that by 2010, there will be 1700 million subscribers worldwide. Such growth is driven by increasing user expectations for mobile services. Users will demand more multimedia services, and expect new applications and services that are ubiquitous and customised t...

Telecommunication Union (ITU) Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU). The paper, together with background resources on the topic, have been prepared in the framework of a research project on " mobile overtakes fixed ". The project is part of ITU's New Initiatives Programme and under the project management of Lara Srivastava . Information on all activities carried out under the ...

This paper describes a new model for delivering hyper-local data to mobile subscribers. Our model uses any exiting or especially created Wi-Fi hot spot as presence sensor that can open access for some user-generated content. In our approach we can describe hyper local data as info snippets that are valid (relevant) for mobile subscribers being at this moment nearby some Wi-Fi access point. And ...

This paper examines the implementation of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Ghana and presents the experiences of subscribers with the implemented MNP policy. According to a cost-benefit analysis of the portability process, it is evident that the over 19 Million Mobile subscribers satisfy the minimum market size below which overall benefits cannot be felt. From the study, we argue that, even t...