Access Alternatives to Mobile Services and Content: Analysis of Handset-Based Smartphone Usage Data (original) (raw)

Reconsidering the actual and future use of mobile services

Information Systems and E-business Management, 2009

For a number of years, Finland was considered one of the most successful countries in Europe in terms of the adoption and use of mobile services. In this paper, we focus on trends in service adoption, by discussing the development in the Finnish telecommunication market and trends in actual and future user behaviour with regard to three groups of mobile services. Based on surveys from 2004, 2005 and 2006, in which the same concepts were measured, we test models in which concepts like innovativeness, flexibility, status and entertainment value are related to mobile travel service, traditional entertainment and mobile Internet services. Our analysis shows that we cannot understand the actual and future use unless we take the characteristics and user values of the specific mobile services into account.

The future of Mobile Media: a study of cellular networks

This paper intends to discuss the future possibilities created for mobile media. Our work links the changes in the mobile media to the acceleration process of data flow across mobile networks. The increase of data flow (broadband) shapes the media, creating new ways of technical development and strengthening the user's involvement with medias.

The future of the mobile Internet: Lessons from looking at Web use

Hewlett-Packard Labs Technical Report

Just what does it mean for the internet to "go mobile"? If we look around at some of the recent attempts to bring the internet to mobile devices, we might be forgiven for thinking it means a poor approximation of what we can do on our desktop Web browsers. For example, WAP phones give us access to the mobile internet, but the small screen and phone keypad input means that the capabilities of a "normal" Web browser are severely compromised. Many of the features we rely on for browsing are not there, displayed information is primarily text -based, and techniques for doing things like bookmarking are very different from what we might do on our non-mobile PCs. Combined with often shaky wireless network capabilities and limited WAP-enabled sites, we are presented with some of the features of Web browsing, but not all of them; with the ability to do some of the Web-based tasks we usually do, but not all of them. The result can be frustrating, especially in light of many of the claims that mobile operators made for the freedom that these new wireless internet services would provide us through the mobile phone.

The iPhone and mobile access to the internet

ICA pre-conference on mobile communication, …, 2009

The marketing of the iPhone has been a type of watershed event in the world of mobile communication. The sleek device has captured the attention of the public and the design and functionality of the iPhone has been seen as something new in the rather more established world of mobile phones. It is being marketed using unique forms of promotion; its design is notably different than that of other mobile phones and, of most interest to this analysis, it is being used to access the internet more regularly than other types of mobile phones. In addition, as we show here, it is encouraging the use of the mobile internet.

Substitution in smartphone communication services

Substitution between mobile internet communication services and traditional mobile operator-provided communication services is studied in this paper using smartphones. The empirical data are collected with handset-based measurements conducted in Finland between 2008 and 2010. The data are collected from a total of 183 early adopter Symbian smartphone users. The individual-level correlation analysis indicates that no clear evidence in favor of substitution can be found. This implies that the services are used for different purposes as independent services and are not direct substitutes to each other. The results support similar studies conducted by other researchers. However, the analysis can be extended and improved in a number of ways that are discussed as future research.

Understanding mobile phone users and usage

2005

Acknowledgement Vodafone Group R&D has funded this research. I would like to thank Phil Gosset (Vodafone Group R&D), Lynne Hamill (DWRC) and Richard Harper (Appliance Studio) for their help and valuable contributions.

Customers' Smartphones Preferences to Accommodate High Mobile Bandwidth: A Conceptual Paper

The evolution of mobile data usage reigning the overarching trend in modern-day communication. Due to its radical penetration and adaptation, the demand on smart devices such as smartphones and tablets are exponentially growing. Network providers are competing towards providing seamless and exceptional customer experience on mobile service quality which play tremendous role in today's communication way of life. Nevertheless, the gadget must be compatible to correspond with mobile upload and download capability, either through mobile data or WiFi. Hence the author is focusing on presenting the conceptual paper on investigating customers' preferences on smartphones in-line with the cutting edge of mobile technology. In view of the widely spread of LTE technology in Malaysia, only premium smartphones is capable of accommodating such technology. Thus, the ultimate aim of the related study is to examine the customers' profiling with respect to their preferences towards owning type of smartphones that they are using. Moving forward, based on this profiles, customer segments would provide leads on the current trend on mobile demands and usage pattern with respect to customers' smart devices ownership, for marketing campaign offering design purposes.

Mobile internet in the EU: problems and perspectives

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2022

Mobile communication has become a taken for granted condition of people's everyday lives. Internet and mobile technologies have changed our way of both doing business and dealing with our daily routine activities. Researchers have increasingly focused on the impact of the level Internet, i.e. mobile Internet level on national economies. Mobile Internet rapidly been integrated not only into people's daily lives, but also into the daily lives of companies, organizations, administration. The aim of the present research is to perform a statistical study and assessment of the level of mobile Internet development in Latvia in the context of the EU countries in the period from 2014 to 2019 years. The Mobile Connectivity Index measures performance of 150 countries according the four key enablers of mobile Internet connectivity: infrastructure (i.e., the availability of high-performance mobile internet network coverage), affordability (i.e., availability of mobile services and devices at price points that reflect the level of income across a national population), consumer readiness (i.e., citizens with the awareness and skills needed to value and use the internet) and content (i.e., availability of secure online content and services accessible and relevant to the local population). The study analyzes the impact of the Mobile Connectivity Index on the Latvian economic growth, makes recommendations for improving the Internet and mobile technologies as an endogenous factor of economic development.

Lookong Beyond the Third Generation of Mobile Networks to New Influences on Information Society

Certain conclusions and facts have existed over the last few years which have contributed to widespread negative attitudes about 2.5 and 3G systems. Technical lapses, bad performance, nonrealistic costs, and unfulfilled expectations are some of the most pertinent motives cited by experts for a lack of interest among enterprise users and customers. This paper discusses the future of mobile networks through the aspects of mobile technology trends and their transition into broadband wireless networks, which will encompass the All-IP ideas within a packet-switched infrastructure. Future mobile networks should not only promise higher data bandwidth but also the integration of different wireless communication modes into seamless communication between different appliances.

The Influence of Mobile Phone Users on the Design of 3G Products and Services

This article discusses some examples of the social practices that dominate the ways in which many people have appropriated mobile communications. It will explore how these behaviours might have a bearing upon the arrival of future 3G (third generation) mobile communications products and services by examining how, alongside the continued demand for innovation and design in mobile communications, some very simple functional, economic and emotional needs are defining the basic requirements for mobile communications