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When Mobile overtakes Fixed: General Policy Issues

 

Technological issues

Economic issues

Social issues

Licensing

Unlicensed wireless access systems

Secondary spectrum markets

Re-farming of spectrum

Electro-magnetic fields of IMT-2000

(health impacts?)

Interconnection

Migration from 2G to 3G
(what is meant by this – the technical migration?)
- Call routing?
- sharing of technical information ?

Call and data termination charges

International roaming

Subsidization of mobile voice through fixed voice?

Price regulation

Billing in packet-switched networks

- from per-minute billing to per-event or value billing?

Pricing and billing of mobile voice and data on wholesale and retail level

Pricing of pre-paid cards

Value-based pricing of mobile data

Competition policy

Lock-ins

Open source technologies?

Market definitions

Open access for cellular ISPs and alternative service providers (e.g. content providers)

Intellectual property rights for mobile data and for handset technology

Mobile communications as a global public good?(this would also fit under universal access)

- what about social issues such as affordability?

Universal access

Standardization and interoperability of next-generation mobile services

- availability and diffusion of next-generation mobile services

Rural access

Targeted subsidies

Redefinition of universal service goals

Location-based emergency services

Regulatory reform

Technology neutrality

Fixed-mobile convergence?

Regulatory convergence

Responsibility for consumer complaints on international roaming (too specific – also complaints on fixed-mobile charges and unilateral increase in SMS tariffs)

Source: ITU

 

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