|
The regulatory
environment for future mobile multimedia services |
 In
2001, ITU held a workshop under its New Initiatives Programme on “Licensing
Policy for 3G mobile”. Five years later, 3G (or IMT-2000)
network deployment has finally begun to take off. But in the
meantime, the overall interest in new mobile services has not waned
– the number of mobile hit 2.14 billion in 2005, representing
almost a third of the world’s population. In addition, new wireless
broadband services are beginning to emerge as contenders for content
delivery. In this
regard, there has been a call for a re-evaluation of policy and
regulation of 3G, emerging wireless broadband services, and enhanced
mobile multimedia content and applications. At this time, it is incumbent upon
us to re-evaluate the regulatory environment for such services, an
environment characterized by fast-paced service innovation but also
by a number of important regulatory hurdles.
An international workshop to discuss
these matters was organized under the
ITU New Initiatives Programme in Mainz (Germany) in June 2006.
|
|
Background Resources Website |
| This website aims to provide a number of background resources
on the environment for future mobile multimedia services, and in particular on
the following subjects:
 General
background resources (including competition issues)
Spectrum
Management
Consumer
Protection and Privacy
Legacy
Regulatory Issues
|
|
ITU Newslog and Related Publications |
News from the ITU SPU Newslog
  on:
-
Mobile
-
Wireless
Networks
-
Ubiquitous
Networks
|
|
ITU
Internet Report "The
Internet of Things", November 2005 |
|
ITU Internet Report "The
Portable Internet", Sept 2004
|
|
ITU Internet Report
"Birth
of Broadband", Sept 2003
|
| ITU Internet Report "Internet
for a Mobile Generation", Sept 2002 |
Research project on "Mobile
overtakes fixed" (2003)
|
ITU New Initiatives Workshop on the Regulatory
Environment for Future Mobile Multimedia Services (Mainz, 21-23 June
2006)
|
|
An international 
) under the ITU New
Initiatives Programme on the
"The Regulatory Environment for Future
Mobile Multimedia Services"
was held from 21-23 June 2006 in Mainz, Germany. The workshop was hosted by Germany’s Federal Network Agency for
Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA).
For more information about
the research project and workshop, please contact Ms. Lara Srivastava
at <lara.srivastava(a)itu.int>. 
The
(2005)