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Web-based E-Learning uses Internet technologies and digital media to deliver education content to learners. Many universities in recent years apply their capacity in producing Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). They have been offering MOOCs with an expectation of rendering a comprehensive online apprenticeship. Typically, an online content delivery process requires an Internet connection. However,...
With the increasing popularity of mobile Internet, it can bring great business value for Telecommunication (Telco) operators to provide users with better services in a timely manner. Understanding the change of mobile user's activity can be a great help for operators to increase user experience and avoid the user churn. In this paper, we predict short-term user activity with massive Mobile Broadband...
Nowadays, more and more companies intend to combine public transport system with the mature Wi-Fi technology to bring more passengers value-added services during their travel. It is critical to mobile service market and city management by identify the user's behavior patterns. In this paper, the author firstly analyzes the time regularity of bus Wi-Fi network behavior. Then from the perspective of...
Considering that the current information content being exchanged is increasingly multimedia, it is quite natural to the demand for a relatively short time downloading or to a certain extent uploading large information files to the Internet. Mobility is increasingly demanded along with broadband. Certain to locations do not have the necessary infrastructure for broadband. Users that are residing in...
This paper examines some South East European countries readiness to develop digital economy by analyzing and comparing several key measuring indicators. Although these countries have created the basement for digital economy development, more intensive activities are needed in the future in order to create proper environment for further development of digital economy (education, innovation, organizational...
This keynote paper discusses the opportunities and barriers to real economic growth through e-transformation in African economies. Understanding the answer to this question is dependent on how we interpret the question and on where the opportunities for economic growth lie.
Wireless technologies and services in emerging markets have been central to enabling the communications explosion over the last decade that has, in many ways, revolutionized the lives and the economies of the people living there. The nature of the markets and the competitive dynamics in these regions are undergoing some delicate but very important shifts. This white paper analyzes the leading opportunities...
In this paper, wireless deployment scenarios for network operators delivering broadband Internet access in underserved rural areas lacking adequate basic PSTN network infrastructure are examined. Considering the defined operators' broadband coverage targets, the existing national regulatory demands and the EU initiatives engaged in a Digital divide reduction, further deployment of broadband access...
From an Internet service provider's prospective, the increasing popularity of mobile devices and broadband Internet has created new business challenges: more diverse competitions and more volatile customer behaviors. Therefore, to accurately respond to the changing customer demands, using big data to analyze existing and potential customers has become a trend among businesses in designing marketing...
Historically Africa was associated with a very low broadband penetration rate. At the turn of the millennium, there has been a massive expansion in the penetration rates of seacom cables resulting in an exponential growth on the fixed and mobile broadband in the continent. This paper investigates the effect of the exponential broadband growth on the Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP)...
Access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) is becoming a necessity not only for communication, but for commerce, and for obtaining information about healthcare, employment, and education. Unfortunately, the global digital divide has deepened to include limits on access to mobile broadband services. This paper uses an information ethics (IE) perspective, based the work of Floridi,...
The expansion of mobile broadband services will bring noticeable changes to the market in the present and in the near future and will also have an impact on society. The penetration of mobile broadband services is generally regarded to be a crucial factor for economic growth and global competitiveness of a nation, and South Korea continues to hold the global lead in mobile broadband penetration despite...
To deal with the "last kilometer" problem during the agricultural science and technology information service, based on the requirement analysis, combined with the characteristics of We Chat and We Chat public platform, we analyzed the feasibility and necessity of We Chat used in agricultural information service, and discussed the mode of We Chat used in agricultural information service....
In our days the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) for teaching is widely recognized that promotes the innovation and the effectiveness within all academic levels and in all teaching and training sectors. One of the main obstacles for the further penetration of e-learning is the existence of the Digital Divide across nations or / and communities. Digital Divide is defined as...
The significant increase of internet based services penetration in combination with the high adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), speed up the convergence of traditional telecom networks with new internet based networks. As a result traditional telecom based services, like voice telephony are provided through internet based networks, while the penetration of new innovative...
Knowledge is power. In today's Information age, education is the de facto tool which enables thinking by transforming information into knowledge. It is valued to such an extent that the right to education is considered to be one of the fundamental rights of the people. However education is often disparaged. According to the United Nations, India is home to a staggering 287 million illiterate adults...
BH mobile Internet market is mostly presented by 3G data technology. Due to limitations regarding capacity, performances, speed and QoS, new technologies such as IMT-Advanced (4G) have been developed. This article presents an overview and statistics of mobile data usage in different technologies as well as representation of different kind of applications and devices globally and by region underling...
YouTube, the killer application of today's Internet, is changing the way ISPs and network operators manage quality monitoring and provisioning on their IP networks. YouTube is currently the most consumed Internet application, accounting for more than 30% of the overall Internet's traffic worldwide. Coupling such an overwhelming traffic volume with the ever intensifying competition among ISPs is pushing...
Today residential users often have at their disposal multiple ways for connecting to the Internet, including both wired (ADSL, cable) and cellular (3G, LTE) technologies. However, there are no applications that benefit from the presence of the aggregated capacity across all available access networks. In this paper we demonstrate how the already-paid-for bandwidth available on mobile devices can improve...
In this paper we analyze the competitive effects between mobile and fixed broadband. We use the Lotka Volterra competition model, known from ecology, to analyze these competitive effects in the OECD area. The results suggest that mobile broadband demand is stimulated by a high demand for fixed broadband services. Hence, the majority of consumers does not view fixed broadband as a substitute for mobile...
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