Broadband impact on household consumers: Online habits and time allocation patterns on daily life activities

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 225-241

  Choudrie, Jyoti ^a   Dwivedi, Yogesh Kumar ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broadband consumers; Daily life activities; Household; Impact; Time allocation

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; ONLINE SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

CROSS SECTIONAL ANALYSIS; HOUSEHOLD CONSUMERS; POSTAL SURVEY; TIME ALLOCATION;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 33847073458     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2007.011817     Document Type: Article

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