The future of the mobile phone business

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 331-340

  Boretos, George P ^a  

^a NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

China; Europe; GSM system; Logistic curve; Mobile phones; Mobile users; Natural growth; S curve; Technological forecasting; World

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE PHONES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STATISTICS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LOGISTIC CURVE; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; NATURAL GROWTH;

TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST;

EID: 33847335915     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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