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A Comparative Analysis of Mobile Wireless Broadband Speeds in Cities Across the World

Ford, George S. - 2022

In POLICY BULLETIN NO. 54, I compared fixed broadband speeds across thousands of U.S. and foreign cities. My analysis revealed that average download speeds for fixed broadband are typically faster in the United States and often materially so, and U.S. upload speeds are comparable to other...

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Adoption of services and apps on mobile phones by micro-entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Paas, Leo; Eijdenberg, Emiel L.; Masurel, Enno - 2022

This article shows that acquisition pattern analysis is highly suited for research in developing economies. Consumers in such contexts prioritize the adoption of alternative product-services as a result of resource constraints. In the reported acquisition pattern analysis, we provide insights...

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The Impact of Mobile Social App Usage on Offline Shopping Store Visits

Cui, Xuebin; Sun, Yacheng; Chen, Yubo; Wu, Banggang - 2022

This research conducts a first empirical investigation into the effect of mobile social app usage on consumers’ decisions to visit offline stores, and how such an effect varies across consumers and carries over time. Our analysis combines a dataset of mobile app usage at the individual...

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What WeChat can Learn from WhatsApp? Customer Value Proposition Development for Mobile Social Networking (MSN) Apps : A Case Study Approach

Wan, Wong Sze; Dastane, Dr Omkar; Mohd Satar, Nurhizam Safie - 2019

As a result of digital technology revolution and massive growth of smart phone usage, over 66% of world’s population (4.92 billion) is using mobile phones and over half of them are using social media. Mobile social networking (MSN) becomes one of the key communication tool, new trend,...

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Competing with Superstars in the Mobile App Market

Ershov, Daniel - 2018

Firms considering to enter into online markets face significant demand uncertainty and consumer search costs, with consumers most likely finding previously successful products in the market. This leads to a trade-off for potential entrants. Consider the appearance of a new very popular product...

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Getting Beyond Command-and-Control Regulation in Wireless Spectrum

Cox, Tyler; Coontz-McAllister, Megan - 2015

The reasons for departing from a command-and-control regulatory model of wireless spectrum include increased flexibility, efficiency, and innovation. Properly framing the question is essential to understanding how to approach modifications to a command-and-control regulatory model: is it a...

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Why Experience Matters to Privacy : How Context-Based Experience Moderates Consumer Privacy Expectations for Mobile Applications

Martin, Kirsten; Shilton, Katie - 2015

Two dominant theoretical models for privacy – individual privacy preferences and context-dependent definitions of privacy – are often studied separately in information systems research. This paper unites these theories by examining how individual privacy preferences impact context-dependent...

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Security and Privacy in Wireless Body Area Network

Sangari, Siva; Manickam, Martin - 2014

Wireless body area networks are a key component to the healthcare applications. The real time patient’s medical data can be collected by using simple wearable sensors on the human body. The body sensors on patients gather all critical health information and report it to remote healthcare...

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Mobile Medical App Regulation : Preventing a Pandemic of 'Mobilechondriacs'

Carroll, Nathaniel - 2014

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration now regulates "mobile medical apps" on smartphones. As a result, new legal and compliance considerations arise from the FDA guidance for mobile app manufacturers whose malfunctioning medical apps may cause unexpected health problems. However, the benefits of...

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Wireless Protocols for Smart Cities

Sarin, Gaurav - 2018

Rather than network of people, Internet of Things (IoT) is network that connect things. It is an interconnection of … will continue to use Internet, but the future Internet will also be a pipeline for non-human devices – Machine to Machine … thermostats. These devices connect wirelessly to the Internet. b. Stage 2: Making Things Work Together – The data from one device …

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