Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is the latest innovation in the area of media-mediated commerce research. It is about the explosion of applications and services that will become accessible from internet-enabled mobile devices. One of the most popular applications for m-commerce is in financial...

The report, a series of international benchmarking studies conducted by the Productivity Commission, compares Australian telecommunications prices, price changes and regulatory arrangements with those in nine other OECD countries, updating a similar study, International Benchmarking of...

Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is the latest innovation in the area of media-mediated commerce research. It is about the explosion of applications and services that will become accessible from internet-enabled mobile devices. One of the most popular applications for m-commerce is in financial...

In the current competitive environment where organizations have a very narrow window of opportunity to get their competitive edge, investigating the role of gender in purchase decisions is very significant for organizations as they segment the market not only on price and customer needs, but...

People may use different kinds of mobile communication services depending on if they are communicating with, for instance, friends, acquaintances or strangers. Thus, in this paper bonding and bridging social capital is studied in the context of two mobile communication services, short message...

Major theoretical contributions have recently advocated a paradigm shift to a "new dominant logic for marketing", integrating customer-to-customer interactions and balancing "high tech and high touch" services. In this paper we attempt to illustrate the relevance of such a framework to...

This consultation paper brings out various issues that have a bearing on telecom tariff offers. In line with established practice, the Authority seeks the views of all stakeholders by 15th November, 2010. For any clarification/information, Sh. Raj Pal, Advisor (ER), TRAI, may be contacted at...

This paper explores the process of the adoption of value-added mobile services by investigating value-added services especially for information services. Determinants of mobile service intention, attitude, and usefulness were found to be significant factors. Personalization, mobility, user...

This paper analyzes the relationship between the traditional fixed-line, mobile and Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony in the EU. In doing so, it aims at filling the gap in the empirical literature on the substitution patterns between these technologies in a comprehensive way. It relies on demand...