Impact of new technologies on regulation

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Impact of new technologies on regulation

• Dr Tim Kelly,Head, Strategy and Policy Unit,
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• 15 March 2006

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Challenge 1Fixed/mobile convergence
Speed
Battleground for fixed/mobile convergence
Broadband
WLAN
3G
Source ITU Internet Reports 2004 The Portable
Internet.
Mobility
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Challenge 2Four key technological enablers

• Tagging Things RFID
• enabling real-time identification and tracking
• Sensing Things Sensor technologies
• enabling detection of environmental status and
  sensory information
• Thinking Things Smart technologies
• building intelligence into the edges of the
  network
• enabling smart homes, smart vehicles etc
• Shrinking Things Nanotechnology
• making possible the networking of smaller and
  smaller objects

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Challenge 3Bundling and flat-rate pricing
12
4'500
4'000
10
3'500
8
3'000
2'500
US per 100 kbit/s per month
Down speed (kbit/s)
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Lowest sampled cost,
2'000
4
1'500
1'000
Median per 100
2
500
kbit/s
Average down speed
0
0
2003
2004
2005
Note Based on 70 economies that had launched
broadband services by 2003. Source ITU
Internet of things. Prices sampled in
July/August.
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Other important emerging policy challenges

• Standards-setting and interoperability
• Harmonization required particularly in the area
  of transmission protocols and RFID
• Governance of resources
• Naming, addressing and identification resources
• Data protection and consumer privacy
• Rules of data collection and storage
• Spectrum trading
• Encouraging use of market mechanisms while not
  conceding spectrum ownership
• Content without frontiers
• Updating 20th Century content windows