Diffusion models of mobile telephony in Greece

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 234-245

  Michalakelis, Christos ^a   Varoutas, Dimitris ^a   Sphicopoulos, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bass model; Fisher Pry model; Gompertz model; Logistic models; Mobile diffusion; Mobile telecommunications

Indexed keywords

LOGISTICS; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

LOGISTIC MODELS; MOBILE DIFFUSION;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 40949083402     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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