Abstract—The aim of this research is to identify the needed infrastructure for e-commerce and dealing with technology and communication infrastructure particularly. Also we are going to study whether technology and communication substructure is one of affective obstacles in creation and development of e-commerce, among other infrastructure of e-commerce. To collect the needed data for this research, the viewpoints of scholars were analyzed through some questionnaires and then the type of relationship between technology and communication factors and e-commerce was studied by using statistical anal ysis and regression techniques. The findings resulted from this research showed that there is a meaningful relationship between technology and communication factors and e-commerce. And it can be stated that technology and communication factor is one of the affective factors on creation and development of e-commerce. Finally, we tried to rank technology and communication factors effective on creation and development of e-commerce by using Freedman's test.

Index Terms—Development, e-commerce, information technologies, technology and communication infrastructure.

M. A. Sarokolaei is with Department of Accounting, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University,Tabriz, Iran. (email:mehdi12_may@yahoo.com).
A. Rahimipoor is with Department of Accounting , Sirjan Sience and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, sirjan, Iran.
Z. Vakilzadeh is with Sina Bank Clerk, Tabriz Emam Khomeyni Branch,Tabriz, Iran.

Cite: Mehdi Alinezhad Sarokolaei, Akbar Rahimipoor, and Zahra Vakilzadeh, "The Impact of Technology and Communication Infrastructure on Development of e-Commerce in Iran ," International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 162-164, 2012.