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Mobile overtakes Fixed: Data Communications

This page has been designed to provide some background information on the relationship between mobile and fixed-line communications.

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Other online resources:
Interconnection
International roaming
Pricing and billing
Competition in mobile markets
Licensing and spectrum policy
Mobile data communications
Consumer protection and privacy

Regulatory Material

ODTR, A framework for value-added text messaging services

OFTA, Inter-operator SMS - the regulator's perspective

Academic Resources

Wireless Internet access: 3G vs. WiFi, William Lehr, MIT & Columbia University/ Lee McKnight, Syracuse University, ITS Europe 2002

Mobile payments: the trust perspective, Tomi Dahlberg/ Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen

Related Material

The m-commerce and secure mobile payments in WAP, Nokia, Mobile software integration

Telegeography Inc., Follow the Money: Network-to-Network Payments for Internet Telephony and Other IP Traffic Systems, October 2002

Wireless surfer numbers grow, Article in CyberAtlas, Robyn Greenspan, September 6, 2002

ITU Resources

ITU Internet Report 2002: Internet for a mobile generation

New Initiatives Workshop on 'Licensing policy for 3G mobile'

Background Paper: "Mobile Overtakes Fixed: Implications for Policy and Regulation", ITU 2003