Affordability of basic telephone service: an income distribution approach

Milne, Claire

doi:10.1016/s0308-5961(00)00072-0

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“…Kamel and Hassan (2003) therefore conclude that the TAM is appropriate in explaining the attitudes and usage intention of users during the early stages of adoption, but fails to consider the contextual influences such as culture and technology accessibility and affordability, which can affect the extent of usage in post-adoption (Bhatti 2007;Boadi et al 2007). In this paper we will explore three contextual factors-accessibility, affordability, and knowledge of the adopterwhich influence m-commerce adoption and usage (Tarasewich et al 2002;Milne 2000;Milne 2006).…”

Section: Concept Of Mobile Commercementioning

confidence: 99%

Preliminary insights into the influence of mobile phones in micro-trading activities of market women in Nigeria

Boateng

Hinson

Galadima³

et al. 2013

Information Development

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This paper explores the influence of mobile phones on the micro-trading activities of women traders in Nigeria. This exploratory study adopts a qualitative research approach. A theoretical model based on the Technology Acceptance Model is used to analyse two case studies of the micro-trading activities of Nigerian market women. The findings suggest that, first, the benefits obtained by market women tend to be partly influenced by the extent of mobile access and usage by trading partners in their value chain. Second, the knowledge of the trader plays a critical role in determining the type of mobile functionality used. Market women who innovatively integrate mobile services, like mobile banking, stand to reform their market structural processes and become more economically empowered. In micro-trading activities, enhancing communication and trading processes through mobile phones improves revenue acquisition and enhances decision making and control. The research concludes with an emphasis for research and practice to increase the mobile capabilities of those at the ‘bottom of the pyramid’ to beyond voice calls and text messaging. Research propositions and lessons for future research are also outlined. This paper generates new insights about the usage of mobile telephony for the enhancement of economic effectiveness of micro-traders.

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Section: Concept Of Mobile Commercementioning

confidence: 99%

Preliminary insights into the influence of mobile phones in micro-trading activities of market women in Nigeria

Boateng

Hinson

Galadima³

et al. 2013

Information Development

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“…As universal service emerged as a central concept in telecommunications reform in the 1990s to address issues such as rebalancing of tariffs (Milne 2000), affordability become more widely discussed. Eventually it became widely accepted as a specific part of universal service.…”

Section: The Burden Of the Past In Telecommunications Affordabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

New ideas for digital affordability: Is a paradigm shift possible?

Goggin¹

2014

ajTDE

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Summary:Affordability is an important and recurrent issue in telecommunications and the digital economy. With the rise of the Internet and mobiles, there have emerged a range of new ideas about addressing long-standing affordability issues. Yet it has been difficult for the interested policy actors to forge such ideas into a new paradigm, and even harder to gain a new consensus and public support. Accordingly, this paper considers this policy impasse, analyses leading directions, and argues for the importance of arriving at a new carefully coordinated and unified approach to affordability.

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“…A 'measure of whether housing can be afforded by certain groups of households' (Semple, 2007) which is concerned with 'securing some given standard of housing (or different standards) at a price or rent which does not impose, in the eyes of some third party (usually government) an unreasonable burden on household incomes', within the construction sector (Hancock, 1993). In the utilities sector, it is described as the provision of services which can be afforded by customers at different income levels (Milne, 2000). It is 'the share of monthly household income that is spent on utility services such as electricity, heating and water (Frakhauser and Tepic, 2007).…”

Section: Affordabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cost Engineering for manufacturing: Current and future research

Elgh

Erkoyuncu

et al. 2012

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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This paper aims to review the current practice in cost engineering, identify the scientific research challengesand suggest future direction of this area research. It has been developed based on both the outputs from the academic forum of cost engineering at Cranfield University in the UK and the state of art on cost engineering research. The promising future research subjects in Cost Engineering have been identified and discussed in detail such as understanding the factors impacting design rework; cost estimation using CAPP information; estimating the uncertainties through life cycle; and developing uncertainty modelling methods.

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Affordability of basic telephone service: an income distribution approach

Cited by 19 publications

References 5 publications

Preliminary insights into the influence of mobile phones in micro-trading activities of market women in Nigeria

Preliminary insights into the influence of mobile phones in micro-trading activities of market women in Nigeria

New ideas for digital affordability: Is a paradigm shift possible?

Cost Engineering for manufacturing: Current and future research

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