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While the traditional PC access to the Internet continues to be vital for exploiting the advantages of the Internet, the mobile access appears to attract more people because of flexible accesses to the Internet in a ubiquitous manner.
Our findings suggest that unlike in more developed settings, when data is limited or expensive, mobile Internet users are extremely cost-conscious, and employ various strategies to optimize mobile data usage such as actively disconnecting from the mobile Internet to save data.
Thus, the mobile internet is somewhat less “internet-like”: search costs are higher and distance matters more.
The results demonstrate that mobile Internet is a more time-enhancing activity while PC Internet is a more time-displacing activity.
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Ten years later, mobile Internet is rapidly overtaking fixed Internet by overcoming key obstacles to fixed Internet access.
Wireless Internet telephony is less expensive than regular mobile telephony because carriers can use the existing Internet, rather than build a new infrastructure, to route calls.
Mobile Internet use must be complemented with fixed use, which brings about more versatile and frequent travelling.
The price of mobile Internet service is inelastic, however, which means that an increase in price does not affect the propensity to access mobile Internet.
Results of our study present mobile Internet participants with a better understanding of the traffic and usage characteristics of service providers, which play a critical role in the mobile Internet era.
Moreover, results show how the evolution toward a fixed-mobile converged metro/access network, where fixed and mobile users can share caches, can reduce the energy consumed for VoD content delivery.