Past research on the broadband digital divide indicates a widening divide in which developing countries are falling further behind countries in the developed world. In response to this problem, the World Bank has advocated a “mobile first” strategy for developing countries. Unfortunately, there is little understanding of what determines mobile broadband adoption or diffusion in developing count...

Services offered through the mobile channel are increasing rapidly. However, limited understanding exists on the variation in adoption of these services. This study provides insights on this area by examining factors that influence the adoption of mobile banking services. Based on UTAUT, innovation diffusion, and ubiquitous computing framework, we identity accessibility, alertness, personalizat...

The rapid development of Internet and electronic businesses have stimulated the banking sector towards encouraging customers to internet banking (IB), However, the evidence indicates a lack of interest in the use of IB services. Therefore, this paper aims to identify affecting factors on customer adoption from IB and measure the influence of each factor on IB adoption. Based on an explorative l...

The purpose of this research is to develop a research model that examines the impact of mobile social capital on technology adoption through IT artifact Influence. To do so, we suggest that mobile networks of practice as social actors affect technology use through the userIT artifact interaction in which mobile social capital lies, thus differentiating it from social capital and bestowing uniqu...

This paper aims to study the factors affecting intention use a mobile wallet of private bank in Myanmar based on bankand customer factors. The consequences service quality and reputation among customers were examined this study. investigation role word-of-mouth adoption is another objective research hypotheses using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique from data collected 250 Kanbawza (...

Despite the overwhelming prediction of increasing trends for mobile shopping activities among customers based on the advantages provided by the mobile shopping channel, there is an urgent need for the re-assessment on the roles of technology adoption models and theories in explaining the adoption of mobile shopping among customers. Moreover, there is a lack of empirical testing for investigatin...

Background Mobile health is one of the new technologies for the utilization of health information. For its successful implementation as well as any other system, we must primarily measure the adoption and use of its factors. The purpose of this study was to systematically investigate published articles about the factors affecting the adoption of mobile health and categorizing the factors affect...

Mobile phones adoption and diffusion is a practical issue that has significant implications for e-commerce and m-commerce development. Examining the adoption of mobile phones from the well-developed theoretical foundation of innovation diffusion theory may clarify some significant factors that affect the adoption decision. Moreover, with the understanding of the influence sources of mobile phon...

The Internet, and more recently mobile phones has seen tremendous growth over the past few years. This paper examines the adoption of the Internet and WAP-enabled mobile phones in Singapore. Specifically, we compare users of WAP-phones and non-WAP phones in terms of profile of Internet users, Internet activities and issues relating to WAP-enabled mobile phones. The results provide researchers a...