"This book examines the impact of data communications and networking technologies, policies, and management on business organizations, capturing their effect on IT-enabled management practices. It includes analytical and empirical research articles, business case studies, and surveys that...

Inherent dynamism in user movement demands for post-deployment tuning of UMTS networks to minimize the total cost of ownership (TCO). Conventionally, UMTS operators so far have considered many-to-one mapping of RNCs to MSCs. However, such single-homed networks do not remain cost-effective over...

This article describes how Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a 3G cellular network standard that uses location update (LU) and location search (LS) for mobility management. LU requires update in two location registers (LRs) - home LR (HLR) and visiting LR (VLR) - where one HLR...

Ever since mobile has revolutionized the telecom scenario in India, experts often ask a pertinent question: is the old assignment of twenty-two telecom circles into four categories valid even now? It has become important in the light of variable rates of revenue sharing in different circles as...

This dissertation explores the decision making structure for investment in a Turkish insurance company (non-life) from the perspective of a medium size German insurance company. As we know that Globalization has created new opportunities for companies to enter new foreign markets to improve...

The issue of wireless service pricing is an important concern in wireless networks. Underpricing as well as overpricing of such services, that occur ubiquitously, can adversely affect the growth of the sector and often leave a dent on the benefits of consumers. Different prices for wireless...