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This paper analyses the response to the COVID-19 pandemic of inbound tourism to Italy looking at variation across countries and across provinces. To this end, it uses weekly data on the number of foreign visitors in Italy from January 2019 until February 2021, as provided by a primary mobile phone operator. We document a very robust negative relation at province level between local epidemiological conditions and the inflow of foreign travellers. Moreover, provinces with a historically higher share of art tourism, and those that used to be ‘hotel intensive’ were hit the most during the pandemic, while provinces with a more prevalent orientation towards business tourism proved to be more resilient. Entry restrictions with varying degrees of strictness played a key role in explaining cross-country patterns. After controlling for these restrictions, we observed that the travellers that could arrive by their own, private, means of transportation decreased proportionally less. Overall, this evidence emphasises that contagion risk considerations played a significant role in shaping international tourism patterns during the pandemic.

Introduction: The market is a very important place to study the behavior of consumers and also provide useful insights what a consumer requires in a product. Telecommunication revolution has indeed swept the country and the future looks even more prospective. Since the Indian mobile phone operator market is overcrowded, customers have many choices of mobile phone operator.Research Methodology: A sample of 300 was taken from North India. The term North India refers to Seven North India States of Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Analysis was done with the help of SPSS 21. Statistical tools used are descriptive analysis, Correlations, Regression, Factor Analysis, T-Test.Finding: Study finds that various factors influence customer preference and satisfaction towards mobile service provider. Factors like Quality, Price, Promotion, affects customer satisfaction. Effect of these factors can be responsible for changing of current service providers. The study also helps us to know what are the major factors of dissatisfaction among the people after using a mobile operator.Originality: The research is original and studied an important topic of Consumer behavior towards network operators.

An innovating model to optimize the debts collection process for a mobile phone operator is developed. It is based on a markovian method to model the debts collection considering both the financial risk and the churn risk. This model addresses two key decisions in the debts collection process: the determination of the optimal cancellation date and the improvement of the invoicing policy. Moreover, a new indicator to measure the debts collection process performances is presented. This provides the process manager with a single figure describing rationally the economic reality. The model and the indicator have been implemented for a major French mobile operator.

This paper presents an investigation of a pilot project that implemented a mobile payment platform in a poor community in Brazil. This project involved the creation of a network of organizations that includes a local microfinance institution, a large retail bank, a mobile phone operator, an international credit card company, and an acquirer, as well as small local merchants. The paper describes the process in which this platform was created and how it was maintained until it failed, one year after starting. Two conceptual approaches were combined for developing a theoretical understanding of this pilot project first to describe the process of interorganizational network establishment and second to analyze its evolution during its first year of operation. The study points to the critical role played by governance processes, the environmental dynamics and how it can compromise the success of establishment and maintenance of such inter-organizational networks.

This paper discusses the value that data from mobile phone providers can bring into urban analysis. The novel argument is that the pervasiveness of mobile phone telephony has transformed mobile phones from a communications device to a tool for socio-spatial research. Put simply, mobile phone providers can potentially gather relevant data on a very refined spatio-temporal scale for every 85 out of 100 inhabitants in the world. Such data can include basic information about personal communication patterns, interactions and mobility which can enable researchers to better understand spatial human behavior, the predictability of which is well documented. These advances that have mostly taken place in the complexity science domain, which largely focuses on individual behavioural patterns, can also result in applications in the spatial analysis domain. This paper has two aims. Firstly, we critically discuss the existing state of the art of urban analysis based on big data from mobile phone operators. Based on this review, the paper takes a methodological turn to present some preliminary urban analysis results using data from a mobile phone operator in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The market of mobile phone of Bangladesh is a stiff competition market. There are lots of competitions among the service provider in this sector. And people have the query to know the current situation in the market. To know the current situation of the market I collect some raw data, like – the amount of subscriber of different operators, from the “Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Committee (BTRC)” website and interpreted them to find out the performance of the various operators operating in this sector. Some other information is collected from the official website of the various companies. I use trend analysis and BCG matrix and other tools to find out performance of the companies using the raw data. At last by considering my analysis I draw a conclusion.

The objective of this paper is to analysis the services portfolio of mobile phone operators of Bangladesh. For fulfilling that purpose services of the mobile phone operator are categorized into six major part - prepaid, postpaid, internet, value added services, roaming and devices. In this paper services of the various firms are presented under these six categories. After the presentation of services findings of analysis are given along with conclusion.

The aim of this paper is to estimate the importance of (induced) network effects in the use of mobile telephones and the impact of the structure of social networks on a consumer's adoption decision. This is done using social network data obtained from a survey of second year undergraduate students at the University of Nottingham Business School. We find that students strongly coordinate their choice of mobile phone operators, but do this only for operators which charge a price difference between on- and off-net calls. Coordination is strongest within groups of students who frequently interact with each other, but weaker with students from outside their group. Furthermore, the students did not coordinate their choice of mobile handsets - there rather is a tendency to choose a different handset than the one used by their friends.

Telecommunication companies depend on high availability of equipment to maintain service quality. In cellular communications electronic cards maintenance is basically reduced to exchanging parts as they fail. These parts are geographically dispersed in unmanned locations. Spares and maintenance policies are thus interrelated and tend to follow multiechelon configurations, following the architecture of the physical network. We describe the optimization of spare parts and maintenance policies performed by the Venezuelan mobile phone operator Movilnet. Both system issues (reduction of SKU, classification of items, network practices, and data integrity) and modeling issues, centered on the adaptation of the METRIC model to the simultaneous optimization of spare parts and personnel resources, are discussed. The systematic application of these resulted in important reductions in the purchasing of spare parts, without quality deterioration.