EUP ASSIGNMNET 5: 26 AUGUST
1. List and discuss the different factors that can influence your adoption of mobile telephone
for academic and social activities/endeavours. In your response, you may add more
factors to the ones in the articles based on your personal experience(s) in the use of
mobile telecommunication services.
Mobile telephones are a common tool used by most members of society. As a
student I use my phone for personal/social activities as well as academic activities. I
will list and discuss the different factors that can influence ones adoption of a mobile
phone for academic and social activities.
Academic Social
Communication with lecturers/tutors Social networking
Using the internet to do research Checking work emails
Get exam results Keeping in touch with friends/family
Access my My Unisa account Browsing the internet for inspiration
Information sharing Navigation/GPS
Study/learn Watching series and movies
Schedule using my calendar/agenda
Downloading study material
Cost/billing of services:
As a student I live on a student budget, therefore I cannot afford to pay large
amounts of money towards a cell phone plan. It is very important to me that I get
the most out of my service plan and take specific care to choose a billing plan that
suits my needs and make sure that I’m not wasting money on extras that I don’t
need.
Customer care services:
Customer care services are very important as when a problem occurs you want to be
able to speak to professional as fast as possible in order to fix your problem. For me
it’s important that my service provider has a 24/7 customer care line that I can
contact when I am experiencing network problems. It is also important that the
phone itself has customer care services that I can contact when I am experiencing
hardware problems.
Network availability:
When considering a network provider the location in which you live, work and study
is extremely important. Network availability is one of the most important factors to
me personally; there is nothing more frustrating than not having signal. It’s
important to check network availability in your region when deciding on a service
1. List and discuss the different factors that can influence your adoption of mobile telephone
for academic and social activities/endeavours. In your response, you may add more
factors to the ones in the articles based on your personal experience(s) in the use of
mobile telecommunication services.
Mobile telephones are a common tool used by most members of society. As a
student I use my phone for personal/social activities as well as academic activities. I
will list and discuss the different factors that can influence ones adoption of a mobile
phone for academic and social activities.
Academic Social
Communication with lecturers/tutors Social networking
Using the internet to do research Checking work emails
Get exam results Keeping in touch with friends/family
Access my My Unisa account Browsing the internet for inspiration
Information sharing Navigation/GPS
Study/learn Watching series and movies
Schedule using my calendar/agenda
Downloading study material
Cost/billing of services:
As a student I live on a student budget, therefore I cannot afford to pay large
amounts of money towards a cell phone plan. It is very important to me that I get
the most out of my service plan and take specific care to choose a billing plan that
suits my needs and make sure that I’m not wasting money on extras that I don’t
need.
Customer care services:
Customer care services are very important as when a problem occurs you want to be
able to speak to professional as fast as possible in order to fix your problem. For me
it’s important that my service provider has a 24/7 customer care line that I can
contact when I am experiencing network problems. It is also important that the
phone itself has customer care services that I can contact when I am experiencing
hardware problems.
Network availability:
When considering a network provider the location in which you live, work and study
is extremely important. Network availability is one of the most important factors to
me personally; there is nothing more frustrating than not having signal. It’s
important to check network availability in your region when deciding on a service
