This paper addresses the mobile service pricing and affordability issues in China. Taking history as a mirror, it shows individual tariffs existed at the dawn of telephony. A vision of future mobile services with individual tariffs are formalized which will suit specially well the culture of...

Advanced Business Process Management (BPM) tools enable the decomposition of previously integrated and often ill-defined processes into re-usable process modules. These process modules can subsequently be distributed on the Internet over a variety of many different actors, each with their own...

The search for enablers of continued growth of SMS traffic, as well asthe take-off of the more diversified MMS message contents, open up forenterprises the potential of bulk use of mobile messaging , instead ofessentially one-by-one use. In parallel, such enterprises or valueadded services...

When a panel carries out a brainstorming session on an issue or research question, it is often difficult to apply text summarization to the brainstorming notes. This either gives the power of editing conclusions to the panel leader, which may favor some ideas, and/or slows down considerably the...

Inaugural lecture as Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School, on the influence of mobile payment capabilities on the overall banking and telecommunications industry structure. Or: throwing alltogether the wires, wallet and credit card. After an historical introduction, and after showing...

This paper links communications and media usage to social and household economics boundaries. It highlights that in present day society , communications and media are a necessity, but not always affordable , and that they furthermore open up for addictive behaviours which raise additional...

Warnings to the broad population in an emergency situation, irrespective of location and condition, is a public policy responsibility. Public wireless networks offer now the opportunity to deliver emergency warnings in this way with explanations, because in many countries the mobile penetration...