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UMTS Report

Report 11
Cosa permette l'UMTS - Servizi e applicazioni di Terza Generazione
(fonte: www.umts-forum.org )

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................ 7
0.1 General ...................................................................................................................7
0.2 Expectations ............................................................................................................7
0.3 Creating the Environment ........................................................................................8
0.4 Recommendations...................................................................................................10
0.4.1 User Expectations................................................................................................10
0.4.2 Service Provisioning ..........................................................................................10
0.4.3 Technology Issues................................................................................................11

1 INTRODUCTION....................................................................................... 12

1.1 General .....................................................................................................................12
1.2 The Report ................................................................................................................13
1.3 What makes Third Generation Different?..................................................................13

2 USER EXPECTATIONS ........................................................................... 15

2.1 User Perceptions ........................................................................................................15
2.2 Migration towards UMTS/Third Generation from a User Perspective ...............16

3 ICT VISION OF SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS.................................. 18

4 UMTS/THIRD GENERATION APPLICATIONS........................................ 22

4.1 Multimedia Applications...........................................................................................22
4.1.1 Video Telephony and Videoconferencing............................................................22
4.1.2 Audio-Visual Non-Broadcasting Data Transport over 3G...................................22
4.2 Mobile Commerce .....................................................................................................24
4.2.1 General .................................................................................................................24
4.2.2 Market Forecasts ..................................................................................................24
4.2.3 Security Aspects...................................................................................................25
4.2.4 Example................................................................................................................25
4.3 Unified Multimedia Messaging ................................................................................26
4.3.1 Benefits of Multimedia Messaging Services........................................................27
4.4 Voice over IP (VoIP) .................................................................................................28
4.5 Interactive Broadcasting...........................................................................................29
4.6 Positioning..................................................................................................................31
4.6.1 Satellite-Based: Global Positioning System (GPS)..............................................32
4.6.2 Terrestrial Infrastructure-Based ...........................................................................33

5 UMTS/THIRD GENERATION SERVICES ................................................ 35

5.1 Location-Based Services ...........................................................................................35
5.2 Infotainment and Edutainment................................................................................37
5.2.1 General .................................................................................................................37
5.2.2 Games and Remote Gambling..............................................................................37
5.2.3 Travel ...................................................................................................................37
5.2.4 Educational Services ............................................................................................38
5.3 B2C Services ..............................................................................................................38
5.3.1 New Customer and Field Sales ............................................................................38
5.3.2 Customer Care and Field Service.........................................................................39
5.4 Office Extension.........................................................................................................39
5.4.1 General Survey.....................................................................................................39
5.4.2 Teleworking .........................................................................................................40
5.4.3 Virtual Home Environment (VHE) ......................................................................41
5.4.4 Whiteboarding/Collaborative Work.....................................................................42
5.4.5 Security Aspects within the Office Extension......................................................42
5.5 Telemedicine ..............................................................................................................43
5.6 Telematics/Telemetry/Monitoring ...........................................................................43

6 INTERNET PROTOCOL TRENDS ........................................................... 46

6.1 Introduction ...............................................................................................................46
6.2 Mobile IP in UMTS/Third Generation Networks ..................................................47
6.2.1 User Mobility within Mobile IP ...........................................................................47
6.2.2 Support of Terminals that have not Implemented Mobile IP ...............................48
6.2.3 Building Robustness into Mobile IP Networks....................................................48
6.2.4 Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting in Mobile IP Networks ..............48
6.3 Other Issues................................................................................................................49

7 QUALITY OF SERVICE LEVELS............................................................. 50

8 CHARGING: THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES..................... 52

8.1 Overview.....................................................................................................................52
8.2 Change of Business....................................................................................................52
8.3 What Will Be Billed?.................................................................................................53
8.3.1 Billing for Transport ............................................................................................53
8.3.2 Billing for Content ...............................................................................................54
8.4 Who Pays?..................................................................................................................54
8.4.1 Corporates ............................................................................................................54
8.4.2 Consumers............................................................................................................54
8.4.3 Complexity...........................................................................................................55
8.4.4 Reconciliation ......................................................................................................55
8.5 Key Issues...................................................................................................................56

9 NON-PUBLIC ENVIRONMENT ................................................................ 58

9.1 Introduction ...............................................................................................................58
9.2 Benefits of Non-Public Environment Spectrum .....................................................58
9.3 Technology Competitors to UTRA TDD in the Non-Public Environment...........60

10 TERMINALS FOR THE MULTIMEDIA AGE.......................................... 62

11 KEY FINDINGS...................................................................................... 64

12 ABBREVIATIONS AND GLOSSARY.................................................... 67

13 REFERENCES....................................................................................... 72