| Future mobile information
society: General Resources |
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This page provides links to general resources on the mobile
information society, including key market indicators, competition
policy, fixed-mobile substitution and convergence, spectrum policy and so on. See also ITU's Research Project "Mobile
overtakes fixed" (2003) at the Strategy
and Policy Unit.
Other resource pages:
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Content and Applications
Pervasive or ubiquitous mobile
Human and socio-political considerations
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| Statistics and Indicators |
 ITU,
Mobile
cellular subscribers per 100 inhabitants 
in 196 economies (2002 year-end)
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Statistics
from the GSM Association
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NTT
DoCoMo, - Subscriber growth (2G mobile, 3G mobile, i-mode
etc...)
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3G
Today - 3G subscriber information (W-CDMA and CDMA 2000)
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3G
operators by country and launch date, from 3G Today
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3G
Licensing overview and 3G
Deployment Overview from the UMTS Forum
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ePaynews, Various
Statistics on Mobile Commerce
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EMC
Press Release, Growth
of GSM Data Services, Q1 2002-Q2 2003
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Wireless
and Mobile Statistics from Wireless World Forum (W2Forum)
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SMS
Statistics from Mobile Data Association
(UK only)
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ITU,
Key
indicators of world telecommunications (1991-2003). Click
here
for more
information on the 2003 edition of the 'ITU
World Telecommunication Indicators Database'
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| Related ITU Activities |
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 (SPU) SPU
NEWSLOG on "Mobile"
and "Wireless
Networks" and "Ubiquitous
Networks"
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 (SPU) ITU Internet
Report "The
Portable Internet," September 2004
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| (SPU) ITU Internet Report "Internet
for a Mobile Generation", September 2002" |
| (SPU) Research project on "Mobile
overtakes fixed" (2003) |
| (ITU-T)
Workshop
on "Next-Generation Networks: What, When and How |
| (ITU-T)
Seminar
on IMT-2000 and Systems Beyond (Ottawa, May 2002) |
| (ITU)
ITU
Handbook on Deployment of IMT-2000 Systems |
| (ITU-R)
Working
Party 8F on IMT-2000 and Systems Beyond IMT-2000 |
| (ITU-T)
IMT-2000
Network Aspects |
| (ITU-T)
Special
Study Group IMT-2000 and Beyond |
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| Public Sector, Academic and Research Material |
| ITU,
Article in ITU
News: "Third-generation Mobile: A Status Report", July
2003
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| Development
of Wireless LANs in OECD Countries ,
OECD, April 2003
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| European
Commission, Communication - Towards
the Full Roll-Out of Third Generation Mobile Communications
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| European
Commission, Comparative
assessment of the licensing regimes for 3G mobile communications in
the European Union and their impact on the mobile communication
sector [See
also Annex],
June 2002
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How (not) to run auctions: The European 3G Telecom Auctions,
P. Klemperer, November 2001 (forthcoming in European Economic
Review, 2002)
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| Convergence
of Mobile and Fixed Technologies: Extending Broadband Access within
Licensed GSM Radio Spectrum ,
ComReg (Ireland) Consultation Paper, February 2003
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| Revolutionary
Ideas for Radio Regulation, Douglas A. Galbi (FCC) ,
June 2002
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| INTUG
(International Telecommunications Users Group), Anti-competitive
conduct and competition policy in telecommunications, November
2002
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| OFTEL
(UK), Effect
of regulation on retail mobile market competition
, August 2002
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| Spectrum
Auctions and Efficient Resource Allocation: Learning from the 3G
Experience in Europe ,
William H. Melody, Telecom Reform (Lirne.net), April 2001
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Some
Economics of Wireless Communications ,
Y. Benkler, New York University School of Law
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| Wireless
Communications in the Information Society,
M.Sc. Thesis - University of Helsinki, Samppa Ruohtula, 1999
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| Private Sector Material |
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Qualcomm
White paper The
economics of wireless mobile data
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The
Economist Survey - "The Internet Society", January
2003
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Open
Spectrum: The New Wireless Paradigm ,
New America Foundation, Working Paper, 2002
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| Other conferences/workshops |
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8th
International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MOMUC),
5-8 October 2003, Munich (Germany)
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