Mobile phone adoption and use in lockhart river aboriginal community

2009 8th International Conference on Mobile Business

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 170-175

  Dyson, L E ^a   Brady, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Bloomfield River   (Australia)

Author keywords

3G phones; Indigenous people; Mobile phone adoption; Mobile phone use

Indexed keywords

3G NETWORKS; 3G PHONES; ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES; AUSTRALIA; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; SERVICE PROVIDER;

MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE PHONES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

TELEPHONE SETS;

EID: 70449580906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMB.2009.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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