This Recommendation identifies the technical requirements and the enhanced NICE capabilities to support mobile content delivery optimization. In order to support mobile content delivery optimization, the NICE capabilities need to be specifically enhanced as follows: the access and core transport capabilities are required to be enhanced to support cache in access and core network, the policy control and enforcement capabilities are required to be enhanced to support caching policy and content transcoding, the content and context detection and analysis capabilities are required to be enhanced to support network status collection and mobility information updates, and the open environment capabilities are required to be enhanced to support 3rd party mobile content delivery applications.