2003
DOI: 10.1016/s0308-5961(03)00068-5
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Comparing internet and mobile phone usage: digital divides of usage, adoption, and dropouts

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“…The objective is to classify the usage types and to then ascertain the relative impact of these usage types on the mobile phone network. There is other published work in this area [2][3][4] for other countries, but every society is unique in the rate of technology update and the use of mobile communications media. This work is the first quantitative analysis of the data traffic across the mobile networks for Ireland.…”
Section: IVmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The objective is to classify the usage types and to then ascertain the relative impact of these usage types on the mobile phone network. There is other published work in this area [2][3][4] for other countries, but every society is unique in the rate of technology update and the use of mobile communications media. This work is the first quantitative analysis of the data traffic across the mobile networks for Ireland.…”
Section: IVmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Adults tend to use mobile phones for personal/family safety and job-related purposes rather than social and hedonic reasons (Conci, Pianesi, and Zancanaro, 2009), while the older adults mostly use mobile phones as a support for their functional autonomy, and to enable them to continue living independently in their own homes (Boulton-Lewis, Buys, Lovie-Kitchin, Barnett, and David, 2007). Differences in mobile phone usage are also influenced by characteristics of work, income, education, marital status as well as by the attitudes, behaviors and perceived benefits of mobile phones (Rice and Katz, 2003).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When the students referred to "location" they were probably referring to the areas participants lived in that reliably (in South Africa) serve as an indicator of their socio-economic standing. Rice & Katz were indeed able to confirm that this impacts mobile phone usage [36]. This, too, is confirmed by the Unicef report on the use of mobile phones in South Africa.…”
Section: Fig 10 Factors Impacting On Older Mobile Phone Usersmentioning
confidence: 56%