Adoption behavior of rural India for mobile telephony: A multigroup study

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 691-704

  Gupta, Ruchita ^a   Jain, Karuna ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING NITIE   (India)

Author keywords

Adoption; India; Mobile telephony; Multigroup; Rural

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

ADOPTION; EXTENDED TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODELS; INDIA; INFORMATION SOURCES; MOBILE TELEPHONY; MULTI-GROUP; OVERALL ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION;

RURAL AREAS;

EID: 84942550128     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2015.01.001     Document Type: Article

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