Responding to consumer fairness concerns about number portability policies

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 661-676

  Chen, Jengchung V ^a   Ross, William H ^b   Huang, Shaoyu F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Leventhal criteria; Mobile number portability; Number portability; Procedural justice; Telecommunication

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MARKETING; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

LEVENTHAL CRITERIA; MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY; NUMBER PORTABILITY; PROCEDURAL JUSTICE;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548784397     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2007.014180     Document Type: Article

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