Standards-setting activities were traditionally characterized by either pure competition or cooperation activities. Recent studies, however, have proposed that a shift in standards-setting activities is taking place in which a hybrid mode is observed, and that digital convergence is one driving...

For three decades the government of South Africa has sought to make telecommunications universally available and affordable. In its last days, the National Party (NP) government persuaded with the African National Congress (ANC) there should be licences for two international groups to build...

Technology, which cannot be considered as a separate existence from society, has become one of the basic research subjects of social sciences. Changes in the new communication technologies have an impact on every area of individual life causing radical changes. Along with globalization, this...

A number of prominent European multinational mobile telephony companies (MNMTCs) have their origins in state-owned monopolies that successfully undertook radical transformation in the late 1980s to late 1990s. Not only did they face liberalization of their domestic markets but they also moved...

Proposals to increase regulation of mobile wireless services, for example, by applying “net neutrality” regulation, are often based on claims that such regulation would enhance innovation and increase consumer choice. In fact, they would have the opposite effect. The business practices that...

The aim of this study is to examine Turkish consumer perspective so as to explore the attitudes concerning advertising via mobile devices. A detailed literature review was conducted in the fields of mobile advertising, advertising psychology, media management and social psychology in order to...

Trust and trust management represent the very foundations of Computer and Network Security Protocols enabling all cyber activities. The recent spate of national and global high-impact cyber security compromises threats, vulnerabilities and exposures leads to fundamental questioning of trust as...

Mobile carriers used to enforce service contracts on consumers. However, recently major mobile carriers have eliminated contracts. We investigate carriers' contract and marketing strategies. We identify Expectation-Reality Discrepancy (ERD) as a key determinant. A carrier's ERD is defined as...

In many developing countries of Africa and Asia, cell phones are used (i) to transfer money across individuals; (ii) to securely self-transport money, and (iii) to save/store money. These banking networks ride on top of wireless telecommunications networks. Traditionally each banking network was...