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Digital Europe: E-commerce and Sustainable Development

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Talking about a revolution

EU accession countries are facing various social and economic challenges many others may take for granted, including something as basic as telephone connectivity access. Consequently, Poland is a case in point where the contribution of mobile telephones is acting as a means of sustainable development.

In essence one of the main goals of sustainable development is to investigate the relationship between e-business and corporate social responsibility. In other words, it's a way of generating and launching ideas to make people's lives easier. Access to telephone connectivity constitutes a way for people to stay in touch, making their personal as well as professional lives safer and more pleasurable. Thus, it has become a basic function and necessity of modern society. In Poland, however, this basic service has fallen short in many ways. For example, the number of households with a telephone line is very low and waiting lists for those who do not yet have a line is approximately seventeen months. This unpromising figure may have also contributed to the actual decrease in demand for new fixed-line telephones across Poland. Given these factors, mobile operators have had much more success launching their telephone connectivity in Poland and within less amount of time. The success rate of mobile connection is quite high and is used by most of the population including businesses. Reasons for success are largely due to the various advantages of mobile phones. For one thing, mobile phone users can contact anyone, anywhere anytime which gives them the luxury of freedom of movement while still having a connection. Along with freedom of movement, mobile phones provide personal ownership which is something stable phones seldom have since they usually are found in households and other locations with multiple users. Furthermore, caller id is a feature that gives mobile phone users a sense of control. Finally, text messaging provides mobile phone users a way to share sentiments that are important enough to express but would otherwise be ignored in long distance communication. Obviously changing the trends of communication in Poland means changing people's way of life, making it more convenient, functional and secure.

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