Lowering the Cost of Broadband PSD3 10.30-12.00 Ras Al Khaimah The benefits that broadband and ICTs can bring to citizens and national economies are well documented. But many remain unconnected, often due to the high cost of broadband and ICTs. Will future generations of technology help to break down the affordability gap? How much bandwidth do households and companies require to take full advantage of offered services with acceptable quality of experience? Will future generations of technology require changes in regulatory frameworks to encourage investment in deployment through public private partnership initiatives? The Changing Landscape of Service Delivery PSE1 14.00-15.15 Dubai C Service control architectures and delivery platforms have been comprehensively specified and standardised within the telecoms industry. RCS-e (Rich Communication Suite-enhanced) is being promoted as the next wave in personal mobile communications building on the deployment of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) capabilities. The roadmap continues into the future with voice over LTE. But traffic on the roadmap is sparse: deployments are few and far between. In the meantime, much of the capability of these features has been implemented over-the- top and is already available from internet service providers. What are the implications for network operators and service providers? What further challenges will HTML5 and WebRTC bring? panel sesions 43