Mobile Internet Users Research Articles

CONTEMPORARY ANALYSIS ON FINANCIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF MOBILE PAYMENT SYSTEMS IN TURKEY

Today's business world moves incredibly fast as the technology’s role on the processes of production, trade, and consumption is getting more dominant. The emerging technologies like mobile payment technology offer businesses an amazing support to operate their cash flow process more efficient and secure than traditional ways. On the consumer side, mobile payment applications make cashless transactions possible. In this study, the mobile payment systems in Turkey will be investigated and several correlation statistics between the mobile payment transaction numbers and the five major factors, financial and technological ones, are presented. Our analysis shown that contactless POS machine numbers, domestic credit cards penetration, 3G/4G adaptation ratio, mobile broadband internet usage rate and even smartphone sales rates are the factors for mobile payment increase in Turkey. Mobile payment solutions provided by global tech players are not available in Turkey, due to the fact that regulations and law related to these services lag behind. Absence of mobile payment technologies from global tech giants can be considered as a disadvantage for the Turkish markets but the joint efforts of established banks, new entrants and incumbent technology vendors supports a thriving ecosystem of mobile payments in our country.

Assessment of Internet Service Provided using UMTS operators at the University of Ilorin main campus

Over the years the need for mobile broadband had seen a great increment due to the demand of internet mobile users. In this research work, data size for Internet operation on UMTS mobile network operators on the University of Ilorin Campus was assessed. The study assessed three UMTS network operators using an Infinix T627 android smart phone and RantCell App. to measure the download and upload at the selected points on the University of Ilorin Campus. It was observed that the number of active subscribers with their relative position in a cell have a great effect on the performance of the networks and therefore, the authors recommend the need for the operators to improve their data sizes so as to enhance users’ satisfaction.
 Keywords: GSM, CDMA, ISP, PS, UMTS.

Dijital Turizm Kapsamında Şehir Tanıtımında Kullanılan Bir Araç Olarak Sanal Tur

The aim of this study is to determine factors which affect intention of the individuals towards virtual tour by adding trust external variable to the existing Technology Acceptance Model. The data were collected from 511 mobile internet users who used the virtual tour application at least once, using the online survey method. IBM SPSS Statistics 21 package program was used for descriptive statistics, reliability analysis of the data. For Structural Equation Model, analysis was carried out using the AMOS 21 package program. The results of the analysis show that; trust has significant and positive effect on perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use has significant and positive effect on perceived usefulness and attitude, perceived usefulness has significant and positive effect on attitude. However, it is understood that perceived usefulness does not have direct and positive effect on intention. In the age of digital tourism, the importance and necessity of using virtual tour to get information about cities and destinations has been emphasized.

Equitable Healthcare Provision: Uncovering the Impact of the Mobility Effect on Human Development

ABSTRACT Even though the effects of mobile phone and internet usage on the health and wellbeing of a population are becoming apparent, few studies have uncovered the nature of this relationship to the equitable provision of healthcare. The contribution is in discovering the relationships between mobility effects and human development where inequities in income play an important role, the relationships to socio-economic development and in showing how the mobility effect can assist in addressing health inequities.

Nomophobia Levels and Personalities of University Students

The development of technology has made our lives easier and has caused some dependencies to enter our lives. The aim of this study is to measure the nomophobia levels of the students at the faculty of sports at Uşak University and the faculty of technology at Isparta Applied Sciences University and to examine the relationship of personality with the level of nomophobia.
 
 The sample of the study consists of a total of 408 students at the faculty of sports at Uşak University and the faculty of technology at Isparta Applied Sciences University. Volunteering was taken into account in participation. Students’ nomophobia level and personality properties were analyzed according to the gender of the participants, age groups, educational status, department, phone usage by years, daily smartphone usage time, mobile internet usage time, daily mobile internet usage time, smartphone night off status, the time spent with friends during the day. 
 
 In the study, the Nomophobia Scale, developed by Yıldırım and Correia (2015) and whose validity and reliability were made, was developed by Somer, Tatar and Korkmaz (2001) and the 5-Factor Personality Inventory, whose validity and reliability of short form were, made was used by Tatar (2005). In this study, SPSS 22.00 Program used in quantitative research methods was used. The data were summarized by giving percentage and frequency tables. This study was tested with a significance level of 0.05. There are statistically both significant relationship (p < .05) and non-sense relationship (p > .05) between nomophobia and subscale scores according to age, gender, department, phone usage by years, daily smartphone usage time, mobile internet usage time, daily mobile internet usage time, smartphone night off status and the time spent with friends during the day. A statistically significant relationship was found between personality and nomophobia (p < .05).
 
 The results of the study showed us how nomophobia is effective on students. As a result of the study, it is an indicator that personality affects nomophobia. It seems that personality is effective on nomophobia. As the personality gets stronger, the level of nomophobia will decrease. Therefore, necessary studies can be done about the personality. In addition, a new research can be proposed in which students in the other department will be assessed to be affected by the level of nomophobia.

Mobile Internet Usage and Usage Based Pricing

Using data on mobile Internet usage of thousands of individuals, we provide some of the first analyses linking mobile usage to key demographics such as income. We find a reverse-U relationship between mobile Internet usage and income – notably different than the monotonically declining relationship found on home devices. This pattern suggests that data caps are particularly binding on low-income users. We then construct a simple model of mobile Internet usage that incorporates demand features suggested by our empirical finding and prior empirical findings on device adoption and usage. After abstracting away from cost and two-sided market considerations, we solve the model, and through comparative statics, identify demand conditions for which usage-based pricing (via a data cap) is, or is not, revenue enhancing. Key insights from this analysis are: 1) the tendency toward demand-driven price discrimination is hill-shaped (increasing then decreasing) in the number of low-income users and eventually declining in high-income users, and 2) a relatively high (low) proportion of total value attained from relatively low usage levels by low-income (high-income) users increases the tendency toward demand-driven price discrimination. Hence, to the extent that a market has a large number of low-income users and/or high-income users attain a higher proportion of their total value at the cap than low-income users, the use of caps by providers is more likely driven by cost (or other non-demand-side) considerations than by revenue enhancement. Lastly, additional analysis shows a largely monotonically increasing relationship between income and usage intensity (measured as page views in a session), suggesting that, ceteris paribus, price discrimination strategies may be more effective if tied to usage intensity rather than duration.

A differential privacy based probabilistic mechanism for mobility datasets releasing

With the rapid popularization and development of the global positioning systems, location-based services (LBSs) are springing up to provide mobile internet users with door-to-door services. The users’ privacy becomes one of the main concerns of such services, as location data reflects various sensitive information, such as home address, employment and even health conditions. Releasing the aggregated mobility datasets, i.e., the population of mobile users at different regions in the area, is one of the solutions in solving the privacy concerns that covers the individual users’ information and accepted as a valid privacy preserving method in releasing mobility datasets. However, in a recent research, by exploiting the uniqueness and regularity of mobility data, individual trajectories can be recovered from the aggregated mobility datasets with accuracy about 73–91%. In this paper, we propose a novel differential privacy based probabilistic mechanism for mobility datasets releasing (DP-Mobi), in which the privacy preserved population distributions are generated and released to support LBSs. We employ a probabilistic structure count min sketch in the mechanism to count the number of users at different regions, and add noise drawn from Laplace distribution to perturb the sketches. Meanwhile, we prove the perturbed sketches satisfy differential privacy, so that the users are able to control the privacy level by tuning the parameters of Laplace distribution. Through evaluation, we show that comparing with another privacy preserving approach in resisting the attack model, our mechanism DP-Mobi achieves 8% more recovery error with the same utility loss.

Beyond platform-centrism and digital universalism: the relational affordances of mobile social media publics

ABSTRACT In debates on digital affordances, mobile devices and social media platforms are often treated as separate (physical or digital) objects which function independently from each other and from the environments in which they are used (‘platform-centrism’). However, mobile phone use has increasingly been dominated by social media apps while social media are frequently accessed via mobile devices, particularly in Global South contexts where users often rely on mobile-only internet access via subsidized/zero-rated social media data bundles. Furthermore, the affordances of mobile social media are shaped by the physical, mediated and political contexts in which they are used. Technological affordances are far from universal (‘digital universalism’) but take on different shapes across the globe. Drawing on research carried out during the September 2011 Zambian elections, this article introduces the notion of ‘relational affordance’ to emphasize the interplay between mobile social media, users and their varied contexts. Despite the relatively low number of mobile internet users at the time, the Facebook group of the popular, privately-owned Zambian television station, Muvi TV, quickly emerged as a fast-paced forum for the sharing of information on the elections. Three ‘relational affordances’ – infrastructure, home-based access and temporality – help to explain the emergence of this active mobile social media public. This analysis challenges previous accounts of mobile social media publics which identified negative (constraining) affordances like the control exerted by Facebook page administrators and positive (enabling) affordances such as the ‘always-on’ nature of mobile social media use and their ‘on-the-go’ access in public spaces.

The Challenges of Adopting M-Learning Assistive Technologies for Visually Impaired Learners in Higher Learning Institution in Tanzania

In the past decades, the world has experienced major changes in the advancement of learning technologies which has enabled learners to engage in their learning activities anywhere. The penetration of mobile phone internet users in Tanzania has been increasing from 2 million in 2011 to 23mil in 2017 The adoption of mobile-based learning (M-learning) for students who are visually impaired in Tanzania has become a major bottleneck since most of the e-learning contents assume that learners have sight and thus include a lot of visualizations. This causes visually impaired students in higher learning Institutions (HLIs) to face challenges such as technical knowledge gaps. Lack of skills and inaccessibility of online contents, which then lead to drop out of the university. The aim of this study is to determine the awareness and usage levels of existing mobile assistive technologies for visual impairment, and the remaining challenges that visually impaired students face, when using such tools on smartphones to access m-learning content from HLIs. in Tanzania. The research was conducted an observational and contextual inquiry study at three major HLIs. We found that 67% of respondents did not have knowledge of m-learning assistive technologies, and their technology barriers for visually impaired students. Also, knowledge, accessibility of Assistive technology and affordability can hinder the adoption of m-learning in Higher Learning Institutions

Behavioural Intent of Indian Consumers to Accept Mobile Banking Services

Banking system around the globe is becoming digitally advanced and India, too, has adopted the  digital mode to transform the payment and settlement system. The number of mobile internet users  is continuously increasing owing to the easy accessibility of mobile phones and cost efficiency of  their usage. Mobile banking allows the consumers to conduct the financial transactions and other  banking activities using mobile phones. Mobile banking has ensured easy and rapid accessibility  of banking facility 24*7 and served as a medium to reach the unbanked, thereby becoming a  gateway to financial inclusion. Digital innovations are critical for achieving and sustaining an  inclusive economic growth, hence, eliminating poverty. In this paper, we have applied the  extended version of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), originally given by Davis in 1989,  to study the key determinants of behavioral intent of consumers to accept mobile banking services.  TAM in itself is an adaptation of the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) (Fishbien and Ajzen,  1975). According to TRA, the actual action of an individual is determined by his/her behavioral  intention, which, in turn, is influenced by his/her attitude and subject norm. The key constructs  that have been studied in this paper are perceived ease-of-use, perceived usefulness, perceived  credibility, normative pressures, self-efficacy and attitude to use. In order to achieve the objective,  we have adapted a five-point Likert scale questionnaire containing 20items.The behavioral intent  was then regressed against these key constructs. The study attempts to trace the causality between  the behavioral intent and the main key constructs of TAM.&nbsp

Технологические аспекты создания веб-ГИС объектов культурного наследия для пространственного развития территории на примере Новосибирской области

The level of information security of the cultural heritage of the region has a direct impact on the spatial development of the territory. Most often this is expressed in the quantity and quality of scientific research in this area, measures to protect and popularize the cultural heritage of the region, and, as a result, the level of development of educational tourism in this area. The widespread accessibility of the Internet in our country, as well as the annual enormous increase in the number of mobile Internet users, makes it possible to disseminate a large amount of heterogeneous information as quickly and efficiently as possible. Therefore, web technologies are rationally applied to increase the level of information security of cultural heritage objects. Geospatial information perceived by the user preferably in a graphical form, for example, using interactive maps and web-GIS. To create them, you need to integrate web technologies and geoinformation mapping. The article presents a study of the advantages and disadvantages of using web technologies in cartography. In the process of research, a technology for creating web GIS of cultural heritage objects was developed, based on the integration of web technologies and geoinformation mapping. The article describes in detail the main stages and features of creating such geoinformation products, as well as the requirements for them. A prototype of the web GIS “Cultural heritage of the Novosibirsk region” has been developed.it can be used by any person for educational purposes, as well as by territorial bodies of protection of cultural heritage objects, local governments, construction organizations, road enterprises, land use and subsoil use enterprises, educational and scientific organizations, as well as tour operators and other economic entities.

A Hive-Based Retrieval Optimization Scheme for Long-Term Storage of Massive Call Detail Records

With the dramatic rise of mobile internet users and the administrative requirements of long-term data retention, telecom providers are facing increasingly challenging storage and retrieval issues of call detail records (CDRs). The existing storage system can only achieve the requirement of online query and offline analysis of the CDRs. However, to the best of our knowledge, few studies have focused on the topic of CDRs retrieval optimization with long-term storage. In order to improve the retrieval speed while ensuring a high compression ratio, in this paper we propose a novel hash storage scheme, termed dual-column bucketing (DCB), based on the Hive platform by making use of its Bucketing nature. Compared to the conventional scheme, the proposed DCB scheme can improve the performance both for CDRs compression and query. Second, similar storage scenarios such as storage of SMS, email and extended detail records (XDRs) are included in the optimization scope of the DCB. Experiments on real-world CDRs show that in contrast to the conventional scheme, the proposed DCB scheme can save the storage space by approximately 40%, reduces the amount of disk read to 2%, and improve the retrieval speed of known phone number queries by up to seven times.

Resource Sharing for Granted & Grant-free Demands in 5G for Non-orthogonal Multiple Access

In the present days we observed a drastic change in the usage of mobile internet as well as advancements in Internet of things. With this advancements in mobile communications as well as IOT, the present generation mobile communication i.e. 4G technology is considered to be not sufficient to reach to the needs of common people, therefore the upcoming generation 5G needs in a frame way to face to ultra huge network capacity & massive wireless connectivity. A major hopeful technology which has the capacity for enabling different user equipments, sharing interweaving wireless resources in 5G is named as Non Orthogonal multiple Access (NOMA) technology, where most of the industrialists & academicians are doing research in recent years To establish good Quality of Service (QoS) & also to obtain low access latency as well as overhead signaling NOMA must compulsorily support two kinds of approaches: i) Scheduling approach ii)Random approach. The major challenge we observe in these two kinds of approach is how efficiently we obtain simultaneous support. Here we are proposing an approach for combining the granted & grant free demands which works on the principle of allowing the approaches to share the same resources simultaneously. We are proposing heuristic resource algorithm which improve capacity of network & user connectivity of NOMA in 5G networking.

Resource Sharing for Granted & Grant-free Demands in 5G for Non-orthogonal Multiple Access

In the present days we observed a drastic change in the usage of mobile internet as well as advancements in Internet of things. With this advancements in mobile communications as well as IOT, the present generation mobile communication i.e. 4G technology is considered to be not sufficient to reach to the needs of common people, therefore the upcoming generation 5G needs in a frame way to face to ultra huge network capacity & massive wireless connectivity. A major hopeful technology which has the capacity for enabling different user equipments, sharing interweaving wireless resources in 5G is named as Non Orthogonal multiple Access (NOMA) technology, where most of the industrialists & academicians are doing research in recent years To establish good Quality of Service (QoS) & also to obtain low access latency as well as overhead signaling NOMA must compulsorily support two kinds of approaches: i) Scheduling approach ii)Random approach. The major challenge we observe in these two kinds of approach is how efficiently we obtain simultaneous support. Here we are proposing an approach for combining the granted & grant free demands which works on the principle of allowing the approaches to share the same resources simultaneously. We are proposing heuristic resource algorithm which improve capacity of network & user connectivity of NOMA in 5G networking

An Empirical Analysis of Online Shopping Behavior in India: A Demographic Perspective

The e-commerce market of the world is growing at a very fast rate. High internet access rate, increased smart-phone users’ rate, growing mobile internet users’ rate, reduced smart-phone cost and added internet speed has enabled online shopping too much user-friendly and easier in recent years. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of demographic variables of the customers in affecting online shopping behavior. With the help of an extensive literature review, hypotheses were formulated for seven demographic variables i.e. age, gender, marital status, location, level of education, income per month and occupation. With the help of a survey method 542 responses were collected from three different locations New Delhi, Gorakhpur and Mumbai. A chi-square test was performed for checking the association between demographic variables and attitude of online shoppers towards online shopping. A significant positive association was observed between level of education and level of income with the online shopping behavior of the consumers. Based on the empirical findings, this paper includes managerial suggestions for stimulating online shopping behavior among consumers. Keywords: online shopping, online shopping behavior, demographics, E-shopping behavior

Privacy-Preserving Top-k Location-based Services Retrieval in Mobile Internet

With the rapid development of mobile internet, location-based services have been drawing great attention of both industry and academia. Given a dataset of location-based services, the search engine needs to recommend a proper set of services to a mobile internet user based on both query keywords and one’s location. To realize great scalability, flexibility and cost saving, the data owners tend to outsource the dataset to the cloud untrusted. In this paper, we provide a secure and efficient service retrieval scheme in cloud computing. Specifically, a novel encrypted index structure is designed by taking both service texts and locations into consideration. Moreover, a depth-first search algorithm is created for the index and it can efficiently return query results. Theoretical analysis and simulation results illustrate security and efficiency of our scheme.

Perilaku Konsumen Mobile Internet dalam Penggunaan Paket Layanan Unlimited

.Indonesia is the most active country in using social media. Indonesia is also the largest online market with the fastest growth in Southeast Asia. This has caused many adult mobile internet users to purchase service packages that are considered satisfactory in terms of both quantity and quality. The phenomenon of internet growth and adult mobile internet users in Indonesia is certainly a potential target of telecommunications operators in marketing products in accordance with the wishes of consumers. The population in this study is consumers of mobile users who are equipped with modems for the internet (mobile internet) aged 18-40 years, especially who bought the unlimited Smartfren service package in Palembang. The sampling technique used was accidental sampling. The measuring instrument used in the form of a scale of mobile internet consumer behavior and purchasing decisions. The analysis technique used is quantitative analysis using simple regression analysis (simple regression) with SPSS Version 20 for Windows aids. Based on the results of data analysis, it is known that the correlation coefficient between mobile internet consumer behavior and purchasing decisions is r = 0.846 with p = 0.000 where p ≤ 0.01. Thus, the hypothesis which states that there is a relationship between consumer behavior of mobile internet with the decision to purchase unlimited smartfren service packages in Palembang is proven. Thus, there is a very significant relationship between the behavior of consumers of mobile internet with the decision to purchase an unlimited smartfren service package in Palembang.

Propuesta metodológica para la medición de la satisfacción de usuarios de internet móvil en Colombia

En la más reciente actualización al Régimen de Protección de los Derechos de los Usuarios de Servicios de Comunicaciones, se incluyó el requerimiento referente a que los operadores deben monitorear la satisfacción del usuario respecto a cada uno de los medios de atención por medio del indicador denominado Net Promoter Score (NPS). El NPS, a pesar de ser un indicador ampliamente utilizado en diversos sectores, en este caso solo indaga acerca de la satisfacción del usuario frente a la atención recibida por un determinado canal y no permite tener una mirada general de la satisfacción del usuario que abarque todos los aspectos y momentos de la prestación del servicio. En el desarrollo de la investigación, se propone un modelo de medición de la satisfacción de los usuarios de internet móvil, que además de contener el NPS permita medir de una forma representativa y comparable la satisfacción de los usuarios del servicio de internet móvil en las principales ciudades de Colombia, abarcando la experiencia del usuario en todas de las fases del ciclo de prestación del servicio

How does negative experience sharing influence happiness in online brand community? A dual-path model

PurposeConsumers share negative brand experience in many occasions to vent their emotion and seek support. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of negative sharing on members’ happiness in online brand communities by drawing from two opposing constructs: social support and social exclusion.Design/methodology/approachBoth survey and experiment methods were employed to test the conceptual model. Online survey data were collected from 1,015 mobile internet users.FindingsThe findings reveal that negative sharing may enhance a sharer’s happiness through online social support particularly for novice community members. The findings also indicate greater online social exclusion for experienced members than for novice members. These findings cast doubt on the widely held assumption that increased engagement in a community will always produces positive outcomes. The moderating effect of membership duration is confirmed with an experiment of MI’s brand community members.Research limitations/implicationsThe study of happiness in online brand community sheds new light on consumer–brand and user–community relationships.Originality/valueWhile most previous studies on negative sharing only explored the negative side of consequences, the authors contribute to this line of research by introducing both positive (social support) and negative (social exclusion) outcomes of negative reviews. The model also explains the conditions under which negative reviews enhance social support and social exclusion.

Amadeus company’s activity strategy in the market of tourist services

This article analyzes the development of information technologies for processing large volumes of information that has occurred recently. It is determined that currently most of the information flows in the tourism and hospitality industry, for example, various loyalty programs or the behavior of tourists in social networks (Facebook, Instagram, VKontakte, Classmates) can be analyzed and processed online, providing a tourist enterprise important data.It was concluded that there is a trend of full predictability of the activity of a tourist enterprise, which, possibly due to the development of analytical capabilities of computing systems, may lead to the possibility that AI - Artificial Intelligence in the near future will determine the priority areas for recreation for tourists. The activities of Amadeus, specializing in the global distribution of tourist content, were reviewed.It was noted that Live Travel Space from Amadeus is a marketing strategy calling for the creation of a new ecosystem where all players in the tourist market can easily interact with each other, regardless of the format of data transfer - GDS, NDC, API, XML and others, combining absolutely different content: air tickets, hotels, transfers, railway, cruises, etc. At the same time, it will be implemented in the B2B segment.Revealed such trends in the development of the tourist market as the rapid growth in the number of mobile Internet users; introduction of AI - Artificial Intelligence, AR - Augmented Reality & VR - Virtual Reality), Cloud Technology, Cyber Security, IoT - Internet of Things.