Impact of Mobile Internet among Nau Students
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Growth in mobile internet penetration globally has aroused the need to do further research in this area to find out the impact that this emerging technology is having on students. This paper presents the findings from a survey that was carried out to ascertain the growth in the number of mobile internet users among the students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU), Awka and the various activities that these users use their mobile internet devices to achieve. Questionnaires were administered to collect the required data which were further analyzed to generate useful information. With the result derived from the surveys, students are encouraged to annex this increase and uses to improve their academic objectives. .
Keywords: mobile internet, mobile portal, mobile internet enabling technologies, social networking, chatting, instant messaging.
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