Opening Forum Speech

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Mobile Internet and its impact on Interconnection
Robert Shaw and Tim Kelly, International
Telecommunication Union,Fixed-Mobile
Interconnection Workshop, Geneva, 20-22 September
2000
The views expressed in this presentation are
those of the author and do not necessarily
reflect the opinions of the ITU or its
membership. The authors can be contacted at
robert.shaw_at_itu.int and tim.kelly_at_itu.int.
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Input from Bob
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Mobile Internet Applications

• Person-to-person (communications) services
• Mobile office (business) services
• Mobile E-commerce services
• Travel/location based services
• Entertainment/leisure/music services
• Telemetry (machine-to-machine) services
• Wire-less access to Internet from fixed
  locations, esp. in developing countries

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Relative price differences, 20 hours per month,
mobile Internet
584.18
Internet use
442.75
Mobile use
281.35
87.29
23.72
23.48
15.79
8.88
France
Germany
Malaysia
Mexico
Note ISP charge includes off-peak call charge
plus ISP charge. Mobile includes subscription
plus peak and off-peak call charges.Source
ITU World Telecom Indicators Database.
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Mobile Internet dilemmas

• In the Internet world
• Access is generally unmetered, flat-rate
• E-mail is perceived to be a free application
• Content providers gain revenue principally
  through advertising or subscription
• In the mobile world
• Access is generally metered, per-minute
• Voice mail and messaging are charged by air-time
• Content providers share airtime revenues
• In a mobile Internet world
• Which business model takes precedence?
• Who does the billing?
• How are interconnect revenues split?