info: Volume 14 Issue 5

Digital radio and market failure: a tale of two complementary platforms

Benoît Pierre Freyens

In sharp contrast to television, various sources of market failure currently prevent market forces fulfilling the promise of digital switchover in radio markets. The purpose of…

The potential of converged mobile telecommunication services: a conjoint analysis

Shahrokh Nikou, Harry Bouwman, Mark de Reuver

Fearing that their voice and SMS business will be substituted by IP‐based services from internet companies, mobile operators are developing various IP multimedia subsystem (IMS…

Emerging business models and strategies for mobile platform providers: a reference framework

Antonio Ghezzi

The purpose of the paper is to provide a business model design reference framework for mobile platform providers, the platform vendors and technology enablers of the mobile…

Online tracking: questioning the power of informed consent

N. van Eijk, N. Helberger, L. Kool, A. van der Plas, B. van der Sloot

The paper aims to report the main findings of a study for the Dutch Regulatory Authority for the Telecommunications sector OPTA to explore how the new European “cookie rules” in…

Towards a model of adoption in mobile banking by the unbanked: a qualitative study

Peter Tobbin

This paper presents a qualitative study on mobile banking technology acceptance by the rural unbanked. The number of mobile phone users has long exceeded the number of people with…