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When analyzing competition in telecommunication markets it is fundamental to take into account their specific characteristics. Moreover, it is important to understand the temporal evolution of competition as a result of multiple contextual factors. For these reasons the present study analyzes competition in mobile telecommunications, measured through the Lerner Index, and explains its evolution through...
With the development of cultural level, the traditional tourism has not meet the needs of the development of the people. The development of traditional tourist scenic areas has been affected by the technology and the cloud computing, so we need continuous innovation and development, it can bring the new experience of the tourist. In this paper, from the angle of tourist, scenic, government, we will...
For a long time, the risk of customer churn, i.e. to leave an operator, has been used as argument in favor of Quality or Experience (QoE) research. However, the understanding of how churn behavior and QoE are related is still limited. This is problematic, as customer retention and churn prediction have grown in importance in face of ever-growing competition on the telecom market. The work presented...
Free Learning for Humanity (FLH) is a new initiative to bring free online learning, experience, and new forms of credentials to those without access to higher education from an accredited institution. FLH is resourced as part of a seed grant from IEEE New Initiatives Committee plus from a growing base of worldwide volunteers and organizations. FLH is not a program or a system, but rather a set of...
Industry and society are facing radical changes due to fast growing digital technologies and its ubiquity. Products and services will increasingly augment and integrate the real world with the digital world. This digital transformation has reached all business areas. Companies and consumers expect to obtain innovation, market penetration, cost reductions and more flexibility. The relationship between...
The transition of the Russian telecommunications market to maturity stage brings up to date the necessity to employ a competitive strategy. Telecommunications companies provide a wide range of services in various regional markets. In this regard, they segment the market according to the types of communication services, regions and type of consumers. An analysis of telecommunications companies strategies...
With the success of 4th generation of mobile communication, known as LTE, there is an increasing demand for additional spectrum to be made available to mobile network operator worldwide. However, spectrum is a finite resource and local regulators have only a limited – if at all – amount of frequencies available that could be auctioned off to service providers. Therefore, the industry is exploring...
With the rapid development of wireless communication technology and mobile payment technology, the O2O e-commerce becomes very popular in the world. People can order services online using their smart-phone, and enjoy these services in the local brick-and-mortar service stores offline. However, with the population of O2O e-commerce, there also occur some problems such as service merchants exaggerate...
Mobile services become more pervasive and complex, customer experience is becoming a key competitive differentiator. Given that intense rivalry in the mobile telecommunication service industry, customer experience and customer satisfaction have become a vital concern for the mobile service providers. However, determinants of behavioural intention such as customer experience and customer satisfaction...
The future for on-demand services (ODS) such as Uber and Grab Car may seem promising but the fact remains that ODS has yet to reach critical mass acceptance among consumers. Hence, this study aims to identify the main determinants of on-demand services adoption and the intention to recommend this technology. Two established theories; the Extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology...
To respond to requests for proposals from clients requiring complex Information technology (IT) services, IT service providers have to prepare a solution composed of the multiple services requested by the clients and price that solution. Then, each provider competes in a tender-kind of process trying to convince the client with their solution. Pricing these solutions/deals, using historical and market...
Social innovation focuses on the creative ability to solve problems in the community reality. On the other hand, mobile applications empower citizens by creating interaction channels with various industries. Challenge based learning is a collaborative methodology that enables the development of mobile applications, whose main focus is on accepting and solving challenges, performing actions, sharing...
Nowadays there is an increasing interest in mobile application development. However, developers often disregard, or at least significantly adapt, existing software development processes to suit their purpose, given the existing specific constraints. Such adjustments can introduce variations and new trends in existing processes that in many occasions are not shared with the scientific community since...
User data allowance trading emerges as a promising practice in mobile data networks since it can help mobile networks to attract more users. However, to date, there is no study on user data allowance trading in mobile networks. In this paper, we develop a truthful framework that allows users to bid for data allowance. We focus on preventing price cheating, guaranteeing fairness, and minimizing trading...
Mobile Internet technology is an important tool and means to improve transportation services. Traditional transport service industry will also be based on the Internet platform to realize the transformation and reconstruction of the operating mode. In this paper, the impact of mobile Internet technology on transportation services industry is analyzed in detail. Moreover, how to create the environment...
Tourism firms are realizing the significance of customer-centered philosophies and are turning to quality management approaches to help managing their businesses in the context of smart tourism. This paper started with the concept of smart tourism and applied Kano model to identify basic quality elements concerned by tourists in the context of smart tourism, which may help firms to understand better...
The information service application and development status of tourism, mobile GIS and related technologies are discussed in this article. Then integrated with current tourism space information and attribute information, we propose Android platform based mobile tourism information service application. The corresponding modules are studied and designed. The applications can provide for tourists basic...
We conducted a qualitative study to investigate the main aspects related to the development and management of applications (or apps) for smart and mobile devices. Is investigation is composed of two main steps and its context is the so ware industry. In the rst step, we interviewed so ware managers with experience in the context of app development and management. Is part of our study can be intended...
With the development of globalization intensified, China's social and economic level continues to improve, cultural exchanges are also showing more and more prosperous scene. In this context, China's digital media industry is also the rapid development, especially in recent years, mobile phone technology constantly updated, the emergence of new media, have greatly promoted the mobile media industry...
The trends of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Industry. This study tends to figure out the industrial trends and technology foresight of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) Industry, including the business trends, food chain, ecosystem, technology foresight, and future direction. We hope this study can bring some important inspiration for the future of Virtual Reality and Augmented...
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