What makes a killer application for the cellular telephony services?

Proceedings from the 2nd IEEE Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, SIIT 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 25-37

  Kivimaki A ^a   Fomin, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; INTERNET; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STANDARDIZATION;

CELLULAR TELEPHONY; END USERS; KILLER-APPLICATION; SERVICE PROVIDER; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICES; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; WIRELESS DATA SERVICES; WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS;

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EID: 33749067942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIIT.2001.968552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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