  The use of Internet and Internet-based services on PCs, Laptops, Net Pads,
Mobile Phones, PDAs etc have not only changed the global economy but also the
way people communicate and their life styles. It also has evolved people from
different origins, cultures, beliefs across the national boundaries. As a
result it has become an absolute necessity to address the cross-cultural issues
of information systems (IS) reflecting the user behaviours and influencing the
way the mobile broadband technology is being accepted as well as the way it is
changing the life styles of different groups of people. This paper reports on
an on-going research effort which studies the impacts of culture and
socio-economic circumstances on users' behavior and mobile broadband technology
diffusion trends.
