Business Aspects of Future Mobile Networks Internet Economics Authors

This report has the aim of analysing business aspects of future mobile networks. To do this we first have looked at the situation today and then made an overview of possible present and future networks. As for the business analyse we tend to focus more on the UMTS-network, which by most people is thought to be the most comprehensive network in the near future. Other types of networks such as those who are meant to be development-networks between GMS and UMTS have been more briefly described. As a comparison and source of ideas we have analysed some aspects of the Japanese I-mode, as a pioneer on new network technology. As we at the moment don't know what the market will look like in the next couple of years and we don't have the resources to make our own predictions we have used estimates of future 3G market revenues from the UMTS-forum Homepage. A great source of information comes from the UMTS-forum and other sites recommended to us by our supervisor. Otherwise we have used websites from different operators and producers. We also used reports from Post & Tele-Styrelsen, the telecom-market governing body in Sweden, this due to the Swedish origin of the authors of this report. Sweden is also a suitable example as it in this area is a very well developed country. It should be taken into account that, the UMTS-forum was formed by 3G-intresents and that both operators and manufacturer of 3G components are not entirely independent towards what ways the 3G market will take. Therefore some of our materials are toned with a bit of positive influence from the described players. We hope that we in some ways have been able to see threw this and in that way make our report more independent from the 3G-industry. 2 Situation today and near future Today we have a situation where, mo..