Counting active SIM cards or subscribers: Implications for research and policy studies
Paper in proceeding, 2009
The use of mobile density as international comparative statistics on access and use of mobile phone raises some concern about inaccuracies with potential adverse effects on decision-making. This study reviews and highlights the problematic inaccuracies and their implications for research and policy. It will provide some simple cases and descriptive statistics as evidence and proposes a new approach to determine and interpret mobile density in a more accurate way
Mobile communication
Reliability estimation
Reliability management
Management decision-making
Author
Tsani Annafari
Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics
Erik Bohlin
Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics
Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Telecommunication and Techno-Economics, Stockholm, June 15-16 2009
Subject Categories
Other Mechanical Engineering
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified