Can we pay for what we get in 3G data access?

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 113-124

  Peng, Chunyi ^a   Tu, Guan Hua ^a   Li, Chi Yu ^a   Lu, Songwu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting; Cellular networks; Charging; Mobile data services

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NETWORK; CHARGING SYSTEMS; DATA ACCESS; END-DEVICES; MOBILE DATA SERVICE; POLICY ENFORCEMENT; POSSIBLE FUTURES; ROOT CAUSE; SINGLE-BIT; TRAFFIC VOLUMES;

CHARGING (FURNACE); NUCLEAR FUEL ACCOUNTING;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 84866595268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348543.2348560     Document Type: Conference Paper

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