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Adoption of mGovernment service initiative in developing countries: A citizen-centric public service delivery perspective

Oghuma, Apollos Patricks; Park, Myeong-cheol; Rho, Jae Jeung - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012

dividends of governance. This emerging trend in public service delivery has been named mGovernment. This new paradigm shift of … governance is the latest innovation and practice in developed countries. mGovernment has emerged as an appropriate form of … of the new initiative. The paper explores mGovernment potentials for transforming governance by increasing their …

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Values and M-Services Adoption

Standing, Craig; Mcmanus, Patricia; Standing, Susan; … - 2006

The use of mobile services has increased rapidly in recent. Although research has been conducted on which services people use and the benefits they attach to those services, the values associated with the adoption and use of m-services at the individual level is still unclear. This formation...

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Examination of the influence of personal attributes on consumer use of m-services

Drennan, J. C.; Sullivan Mort, G. - 2003

The rapid uptake of mobile devices has created the capacity to provide services to consumers while they are on the move, and new mobile services (m-services) are constantly emerging. In past research, personal attributes have been found to be important in the adoption and use of information and...

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Deregulating fixed voice services? Empirical evidence from the European Union

Šaric, Amela; Lange, Mirjam R. J. - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014

This paper deals with the relationship between the traditional fixed-line, mobile and Voice over IP telephony in the EU.We estimate the supply and demand for fixed-line telephony using data on 25 EU member states for the 2006:Q2 - 2011:Q4 period. Employing instrumental variable approach, we...

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A disruption analysis of mobile communication services using business ecosystem concept

Do, Thanh Van; Hallingby, Hanne Kristine; Khuong, Loc H.; … - In: International Journal of Services, Economics and Management 6 (2014) 3, pp. 248-262

Today's businesses are no longer arranged as a value chain but rather as a complex network of entities with intertwined relations. To identify disruptions it is hence more efficient to consider businesses as ecosystems. The mobile communication ecosystem which was until now quite healthy finds...

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A New Model for Rural Mobile Coverage through Universal Service

Col, Muhterem; Sagbansua, Lutfu - In: Journal of Asian Business Strategy 4 (2014) 2, pp. 32-40

Universal service was defined for basic wired services until the 21stcentury. As an emerging country, Turkey was also using universal service fund for this purpose. Turkey has also been expanding the mobile coverage during the last decade. There have been many projects to achieve this goal. The...

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MOBILE R&D PROTOTYPES — WHAT IS HAMPERING MARKET IMPLEMENTATION?

BOUWMAN, HARRY; REUVER, MARK DE; HAMPE, FELIX; … - In: International Journal of Innovation and Technology … 11 (2014) 01, pp. 1440003-1

In this paper, we examine why mobile R&D prototypes are not being implemented. To do so, we formulated propositions, moving from a macro-economic view on innovation, via innovation strategies to explanations that focus on artifact design and the underlying business models. We concluded that in...

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Preferences in data usage and the relation to the use of mobile applications

de Reuver, Mark; Bouwman, Harry - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014

While most user studies on mobile telecommunications focus on adoption of services, preferences in the use of data networks has hardly been studied. In this paper, we analyse data collected directly on smartphones to study preferences of users between cellular and WiFi networks. Moreover, we...

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A critical exploration of the Brussels app economy and mobile city services scene

Walravens, Nils - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014

This paper combines quantitative and qualitative methods to take a first look at the app economy and mobile services landscape in the City and Region of Brussels, capital of Belgium and Europe. By scraping the iTunes App Store and Google Play market places we get a view on platform distribution,...

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The first ever spectrum auction in Poland: Assumptions, expectations, results

Kubasik, Jerzy - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014

So far no general exclusive frequency licenses have been granted in Poland through an auction. In the Regulatory Strategy until 2015, President of the Office of Electronic Commu-nications pointed to auction as a method of choosing companies which will be granted fre-quency licenses from 800 MHz...

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