Showing papers in "Telematics and Informatics in 2007"

TL;DR: The importance of understanding the role of barriers and benefits of mobile services as well as the role that functional differences of mobile service bundles play in the process of actual and future use of these bundles is discussed.

TL;DR: Results from a random sample of 532 college students show that students who made the heaviest use of SMS were motivated by its convenience, its low cost, and its utility for coordinating events.

TL;DR: Analysis of scenarios for ambient intelligence applications that have been developed over the last few years elaborates the assumptions that promotors make about the likely use of the technology and possibly unwanted side effects and concludes with a number of threats for personal privacy.

TL;DR: The drivers and inhibitors behind the emergence and recent developments of mobile telecommunications systems in Europe, are highlighted and are highlighted in this paper.

TL;DR: An overview of broadband policies in the EU, South Korea, Japan and US is provided, which discusses how active policy can stimulate the demand for broadband services.

TL;DR: The findings imply that MNP has more directly affected the industries to a greater extent than subscribers, which suggests implications for both regulators and industries; how to effectively enforce MNP to achieve the intended goals and how to achieve competitive advantage with MNP.

TL;DR: After controlling all possible confounding variables, the predictive impacts of credibility factors on Taiwanese Internet users' perceived credibility of news-related blogs remained powerful and stable.

TL;DR: This study was carried out to show the profile of users Internet Cafe in Turkey, and description hatching model is used in the research.

TL;DR: The article concludes that the convergence and integration of cellular technologies and AWTs is high on the telecommunications industry's agenda, implying a gradual shift in business models for mobile operators towards mobile service providers that manage network heterogeneity and complexity on behalf of the user.

TL;DR: The future of mobile communications systems in the EU is reflected, addressing a number of mobile technologies, and their respective implications for European growth and competitiveness.

TL;DR: This study analyzes how the MVNO market has changed and what opportunities and/or threats network operators and potential MVNO entrants are likely to face in Europe and Asia and shows that the MV NO diffusion significantly relates to market and industry structure.

TL;DR: The feedback effects between broadband adoption and online games as well as issues such as culture, history, Waigua, private servers, virtual property trade, developer control, governance, and regulation are discussed.

TL;DR: Whether broadband is reaching a ‘tipping point’, whereby broadband access is becoming the norm and in the next five years the authors will see the emergence of innovative, dynamic content services is discussed.

TL;DR: Japan is leading the world with the adoption of new mobile data services such as Internet services and with a resulting boost in data ARPU (average revenue per user), and Europe could benefit from more operators willing to bear the risk of introducing new technologies.

TL;DR: The paper will look at the value chain for digital television and try to show where users are enabled to be more active and value adding and what active user roles concerning digital television can be distinguished.

TL;DR: Four detailed case studies from Denmark are used to identify the technological, economic and political/regulatory drivers and barriers of alternative broadband infrastructures, including the role of the government in fostering their existence.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contribute to the ongoing discussions relating to the modernisation of the EU regulatory framework for the broadcasting sector, which would entail the extension of existing content regulations in the Television without Frontiers Directive to new platforms, including next generation broadband.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a financial simulation of a future 4G mobile network and show that the average revenue per user required to break even will be considerably lower than break-even level for 3G networks.

TL;DR: The analysis of four regulatory initiatives indicates that the use of co-regulatory schemes, preferably with the aid of technical tools, might be the most desirable option at the moment.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the networked DVR could be exploited to provide personalized channels and that the dynamic advertising insertion could be introduced as an effective advertising format.

TL;DR: The paper analyses Skype, a well known telecommunications service utilising the peer-to-peer technology, as well as demonstrating the benefits of peer- to-peer based content distribution using empirical data from the Danish Broadcasting Corporation.

TL;DR: The capability of the current framework to answer challenges of the emergence of IP multimedia services is analyzed and some proposals for its possible transformation are given, in particular that of the traditional public service, the traditional basis for audiovisual broadcasting regulation.

TL;DR: The most important concepts and parameters that take place in the information and communications technologies and Digital Gap matter are reviewed and a survey made in Maracaibo in order to determine the access level to such technologies.

TL;DR: The study's findings lay the foundation for a European consensus for calculating future spectrum requirements and are an important part of the process in the lead up to the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2007.

TL;DR: This study investigates the influence of national culture characteristics on the stipulation and implementation of regulatory models in the Greater China Region, which includes three Chinese majority societies, China, Hong-Kong SAR, and Taiwan.

TL;DR: The descriptive analysis made in the Community of Madrid points out that the ''size'' variable of the municipality (be it measured in number of inhabitants, households, telephone lines or economic activity units) conditions the arrival of ADSL.

TL;DR: It seems that competition between different technologies such a ADSL and cable modem works is more effective in stimulating broadband than competition between operators using the same technology.