A Comparative Survey on Wireless Internet Usage and Future Expectations of University Students -The Cases of USF, AKU and IUS

Hüseyin Koçak,Süleyman Dündar,Hüseyin Arslan

doi:10.21533/epiphany.v8i1.129

Abstract

In this article, college students’ internet usage and the expectations for better wireless access are discussed. Wireless and mobile internet access recently became an integral part of our lives. Especially, with the introduction of smart devices (phones, tablets etc.) into the wireless market and the vast number of applications running on these devices, we end up being addicted to them. Now, some of us have come to a point where we can leave everything behind us except our phones. To better understand how the wireless access has influenced us we conducted a face-to-face survey with three different groups of college students totalling 829. According to the survey, there are some problems while using the internet, such as internet speed and connection. University students do not want to give up mobile communications and they never want to be secondary users. They pay more attention to security and privacy in communication. They are also awaiting functional innovations in the future.

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Technology is transforming everything especially human relationships and the society and urban way of life at large
While evaluating wireless internet and communication, it is necessary that the progress of some national policies and the cultural structure be integrated with technological changes
Representative examples of our universe, our research group; 131 females and 139 males in University of South Florida (USF), 142 females and 156 males in Afyon Kocetepe University (AKU) and 42 females and, 219 males in Internatioanal University of Sarajevo (IUS) consists of a total of 829 people

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Technology is transforming everything especially human relationships and the society and urban way of life at large. The rapid progress of internet and wireless communication gadgets has brought about some problems with regard to adaptation to this technology. While evaluating wireless internet and communication, it is necessary that the progress of some national policies and the cultural structure be integrated with technological changes. Mechanical timekeeping, cars, and mobile phones are technologies that have become embedded in our lives. These technologies challenged existing systems and firmly established themselves as inevitable for the functioning of society. The clock, the car and the mobile phone have all become central tools in our daily lives. For most of us, it is impossible to think about a life without mobile phones, which began to enter our daily lives nearly 20 years ago. The relations between wireless communication and society are multi-dimensional

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