Popularity Of Mobile Services Research Articles

Factors Influencing Intentions to Use Mobile Payments: An Entrepreneurial Perspective

Since the beginning of the 2000s, business activities have become more electronic, and cell phones have become an important way to do business. An enormous amount of research has been done on how people are using mobile payments. This study aims to examine how user’s perception of risk influences their decision to continue using mobile payment services. Despite the benefits associated with payments there are still challenges that hinder its widespread acceptance. This study discusses these challenges with entrepreneurial perspective that entrepreneurial thinking here means not only noticing how popular mobile payment services are, but also figuring out what the problems are and using them as a starting point to come up with new ideas that could change the industry. The study utilizes the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model along, with the confirmation acceptance model to analyze the factors that impact users continued intention to use payments and validate the conceptual model. To collect data for this research a quantitative approach is employed through a survey distributed among mobile payment users. The survey adopts convenience sampling techniques to gather responses from participants, across regions of Pakistan. Data collection spanned over a two-month period involving a total of 460 respondents. The study employed Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to examine the relationship between confirmation, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and continuous intention to use mobile payment services. There was a positive relationship between the dependent and independent factors, which meant that all of the hypotheses were valid. Additionally, SPSS analysis showed that perceived risk weakens the connection between confirmation, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and continuous intention. The findings of this research contribute to the business literature and put forth crucial guidelines for the management of entrepreneurial mindsets.

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The overwhelming growth of mobile devices has created new challenges of providing access to online content in mobile-accessible formats and providing opportunities to learn anytime and anywhere and also facilitate the practice of bring your own device (BYOD) and accessing library resources The primary purpose of the study discussed in the present article was first to understand the problems of users they face due to the unavailability of mobile-based library services and then figure out user perception of how to enhance the existing library services to mobile-based library services. The findings of the study show that all the surveyed universities/institutions are yet to exploit the full potential of mobile technology. By contrast, other universities/institutions in developed countries are advancing in terms of providing information access/retrieval to the library users through mobile devices. Therefore, considering the possibility of fast information access, mobile computing provides myriad opportunities for libraries to provide access anytime and anywhere. The responses collected indicate that the respondents are willing to access library services through their mobile devices. The study is significant because it represents one of the earliest works to shed light on the current level of use of mobile technology and mobile-based library services in university libraries, which are in primitive nature. The findings of the study can provide guidance to the students, research scholars, faculty members, and others to identify popular mobile library services and access them on the go. The study also provides some practical suggestions for the studied institutions and their libraries to enhance the existing library services into mobile-based library services so that they can be accessed through mobile devices based on the perception of respondents.

Repeated Overlapping Coalition Game Model for Mobile Crowd Sensing Mechanism

With the fast increasing popularity of mobile services, ubiquitous mobile devices with enhanced sensing capabilities collect and share local information towards a common goal. The recent Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) paradigm enables a broad range of mobile applications and undoubtedly revolutionizes many sectors of our life. A critical challenge for the MCS paradigm is to induce mobile devices to be workers providing sensing services. In this study, we examine the problem of sensing task assignment to maximize the overall performance in MCS system while ensuring reciprocal advantages among mobile devices. Based on the overlapping coalition game model, we propose a novel workload determination scheme for each individual device. The proposed scheme can effectively decompose the complex optimization problem and obtains an effective solution using the interactive learning process. Finally, we have conducted extensive simulations, and the results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves a fair tradeoff solution between the MCS performance and the profit of individual devices.

A first look at mobile cloud storage services: architecture, experimentation, and challenges

Mobile cloud storage services provide users a convenient and reliable way to store and share data on mobile devices. Despite increasing popularity, little work has focused on their architecture and internal sync protocol. In this article, we present a thorough architecture of mobile cloud storage services including sync protocols and key capabilities for speeding up transmission. Furthermore, we conduct a series of experiments to evaluate the sync performance of four popular commercial mobile cloud storage services. Our results show that the concrete deployment of capabilities has a strong impact on the performance of mobile cloud storage services. There is no clear winner, with all services suffering from some limitations or having potential for improvement. We pose issues and challenges to advance the topic area, and hope to pave a way for the forthcoming.

Enacting nationalism through youthful mobilities? Youth, mobile phones and digital capitalism in a Lao‐Vietnamese borderland

AbstractMobile phone use has become a defining feature of what it means to be young, and the relatively remote Lao‐Vietnamese borderland area that is the focus of this study is no exception. Drawing on Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, this article investigates the interplay between the everyday styles of being young, the forces of digital capitalism and the enactment of nationalism. We do this with a focus on ethnic minority youth's appropriation of the mobile services offered by Viettel, the most popular mobile services provider in the study area and owned by the Vietnamese Ministry of Defence. We suggest that the everyday performances of being young, revolving around the mobile phone, are affected by the forces of digital capitalism. We further suggest that the cultural context of Viettel's digital capitalism is embedded in a fabric of Vietnamese nationalism, leading ethnic minority youth, consciously and unconsciously, to enact nationalism through their everyday styles of being young.

Introduction: nationalism in Southeast Asia

Mobile phone use has become a defining feature of what it means to be young, and the relatively remote Lao-Vietnamese borderland area that is the focus of this study is no exception. Drawing on Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, this article investigates the interplay between the everyday styles of being young, the forces of digital capitalism and the enactment of nationalism. We do this with a focus on ethnic minority youth's appropriation of the mobile services offered by Viettel, the most popular mobile services provider in the study area and owned by the Vietnamese Ministry of Defence. We suggest that the everyday performances of being young, revolving around the mobile phone, are affected by the forces of digital capitalism. We further suggest that the cultural context of Viettel's digital capitalism is embedded in a fabric of Vietnamese nationalism, leading ethnic minority youth, consciously and unconsciously, to enact nationalism through their everyday styles of being young.

Understanding Factors Affecting Mobile Services Adoption

Popularity of mobile services is increasing rapidly in Thailand and it is influencing daily life, business, and markets. Recently, more attention has been drawn towards mobile services due to the adoption of 3G in Thailand. This enhanced the competition in the telecommunication industry. Consequently, it became very critical for mobile services providers to better understand users and factors that affect users' adoption of mobile services. This paper aims to identify and study factors that impact mobile services adoption in Thailand. Factors and sub factors were identified and a survey was conducted. Factors were compared using Pairwise Comparison Method (PCM). Results of the analysis show that intermediary factors have the highest impact on users' intention to adopt mobile services followed by service characteristics factors and social factors respectively. The study provides an insight and information about factors influencing users' adoption of mobile services in Thailand.

Understanding Factors Affecting Mobile Services Adoption

Popularity of mobile services is increasing rapidly in Thailand and it is influencing daily life, business, and markets. Recently, more attention has been drawn towards mobile services due to the adoption of 3G in Thailand. This enhanced the competition in the telecommunication industry. Consequently, it became very critical for mobile services providers to better understand users and factors that affect users' adoption of mobile services. This paper aims to identify and study factors that impact mobile services adoption in Thailand. Factors and sub factors were identified and a survey was conducted. Factors were compared using Pairwise Comparison Method (PCM). Results of the analysis show that intermediary factors have the highest impact on users' intention to adopt mobile services followed by service characteristics factors and social factors respectively. The study provides an insight and information about factors influencing users' adoption of mobile services in Thailand.

Context-Aware Mobile Service Adaptation via a Co-Evolution eXtended Classifier System in Mobile Network Environments

With the popularity of mobile services, an effective context-aware mobile service adaptation is becoming more and more important for operators. In this paper, we propose a Co-evolution eXtended Classifier System CXCS to perform context-aware mobile service adaptation. Our key idea is to learn user context, match adaptation rule, and provide the best suitable mobile services for users. Different from previous adaptation schemes, our proposed CXCS can produce a new user's initial classifier population to quicken its converging speed. Moreover, it can make the current user to predict which service should be selected, corresponding to an uncovered context. We compare CXCS based on a common mobile service adaptation scenario with other five adaptation schemes. The results show the adaptation accuracy of CXCS is higher than 70% on average, and outperforms other schemes.

Mobile technologies and services development impact on mobile internet usage in Latvia

Technology development and internet have overall changed communication processes. Mobile internet by combining two most actual nowadays innovations – internet and mobile telephone – has become one of the most popular mobile services for customers worldwide. In Latvian mobile services market mobile internet is still new service. There have been no studies about tendency of mobile internet prevalence and about factors that impacts mobile internet acceptance and usage in Latvia. This paper discusses possibilities to determine instant level of mobile internet use and acceptance.

Mobile Technologies and Services Development Impact on Mobile Internet Usage in Latvia

Technology development and the Internet have changed communication processes. By combining two most outstanding modern innovations – the Internet and mobile telephone – the mobile Internet has become one of the most popular mobile services for customers worldwide. In the Latvian mobile services market mobile Internet is still a new service. There have been no studies about tendencies of mobile Internet prevalence and about factors that impact mobile Internet acceptance and usage in Latvia. This paper discusses possibilities to determine the current level of mobile Internet use and acceptance.

“MXing it up”: How African adolescents may affect social change through mobile phone use

This chapter outlines mobile phone use among African (particularly South African) adolescents. With an estimated 350 million active mobile phone subscriptions, improving network infrastructure, low-cost Internet-ready handsets, innovative programs and applications, mobiles in Africa, and their increasingly younger, increasingly poorer, and increasingly savvy users have the potential to act as conduits for local and regional socially just change. This broad-based connectedness not only provides access to information, but also, and crucially, connects individuals and their social, intellectual, and financial capital. It may represent a powerful, transformative shift in a region where access to similar technologies was historically limited to a privileged few. In order to best leverage these developments and opportunities to promote socially just change, I argue that future mobile-based programs or initiatives in the region should be based in both contemporary developmental systems theory as well as current, popular mobile applications and services.

A Statistic Approach for Deriving the Short Message Transmission Delay Distributions

Short Message Service (SMS) is one of the most popular mobile data services. This paper develops a Web-based short message system and analyzes the short message transmission delays based on 40 000 measured data collected from commercial operation. We investigate the distributions of SMS round-trip transmission delays. These distributions are roughly approximated by truncated normal, gamma, log-normal, and Weibull distributions with various parameters, which can be utilized in theoretical analysis. Furthermore, with the nonparametric fitting approach, we use the rejection method to develop random number generators for these delays, which can be used in any simulation models that employ SMS transmission delays.

Boom and gloom in the global telecommunications industry

The combination of telecommunications deregulation, an exponential increase in Internet IP applications, and the popularity of mobile services has created tremendous growth in the telecommunications service industry for the past several years. As a result of unprecedented demand for network infrastructure, telecommunications equipment manufacturers also enjoyed sales and revenue growth—that is, until the economic downturn near the end of 2000. Among telecommunications service providers and equipment manufacturers, swings from prosperity to downturns have been reflected in their respective stock performances. However, the more recent and fairly abrupt slowdown, particularly in capital spending on networking equipment, has resulted in massive corporate restructuring and workforce realignment in the telecommunications industry. In this article, we examine the “business drivers” and “business draggers” that contributed to the telecommunications boom and subsequent downturn. We review lessons learned from the bursting of the bubble among Internet dot.com companies and the decline in the global telecommunications industry. Finally, we discuss recent developments in the telecommunications industry as it prepares for the next wave of opportunities.