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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">jssi</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2029-7017</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2029-7017</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>LKA</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JSSI236</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.9770/jssi.2013.2.3(6)</article-id>
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        <article-title>Mobile Services in Baltic States: Development to Improve Sustainability and Quality</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Cernakovs-Neimarks</surname>
            <given-names>Aleksandrs</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:Aleksandrs.Cernakovs@sprk.gov.lv">Aleksandrs.Cernakovs@sprk.gov.lv</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jssi_aff_000"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_000">Riga Technical University, Kalku Str. 1, Riga, LV-1658, Latvia</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Karnitis</surname>
            <given-names>Edvins</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:Edvins.Karnitis@sprk.gov.lv">Edvins.Karnitis@sprk.gov.lv</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jssi_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_001">University of Latvia, Raina blvd. 19, Riga, LV-1586, Latvia</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rutka</surname>
            <given-names>Gundega</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:Gundega.Rutka@sprk.gov.lv">Gundega.Rutka@sprk.gov.lv</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jssi_aff_002"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_002">Riga Technical University, Kalku Str. 1, Riga, LV-1658, Latvia</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Virtmanis</surname>
            <given-names>Andris</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:Andris.Virtmanis@sprk.gov.lv">Andris.Virtmanis@sprk.gov.lv</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jssi_aff_003"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_003">Riga Technical University, Kalku Str. 1, Riga, LV-1658, Latvia</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>71</fpage>
      <lpage>84</lpage>
	   <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>29</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>29</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2013</year>
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      <abstract>
        <p>Mobile communications is a booming sector nowadays, while the average revenue per user is decreasing year over year. Such tendency could create a significant risk factor for development and sustainability of mobile services in Baltics too. Development trends of the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian mobile markets, their demand and supply individualities, drivers, challenges and risks are analysed in the article. Predicted development scenario (till 2020) shows the growing demand for mobile services and their increasingly active usage. Operators’ challenges and several risks for supply sustainability have recognized; they have to be prevented timely by operators as well by governments and regulators.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>mobile communications</kwd>
        <kwd>data transmission</kwd>
        <kwd>mobile phone networks</kwd>
        <kwd>mobile services</kwd>
        <kwd>mobile phones</kwd>
        <kwd>smartphones</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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        <label>JEL</label>
        <kwd>L63</kwd>
        <kwd>L86</kwd>
        <kwd>L96</kwd>
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