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CONNECTIONS, CONEXES, CONEXINES, CONNEXIONS
Mobility and Small Business—Mats Victorin, the Regional Head of Ericsson in Asia
Pacific, believes that mobile enterprise solutions and services can play a key role in levelling
the playing field for smaller companies. This is a great opportunity for operators
to address the valuable enterprise segment.
Regional Development—Wireless BroadbandIn the view of Guy J Kelnhofer III,
President and CEO of NextNet Wireless, Asias Internet driven integration into the global
economy has fuelled job creation. Workers migrating to regions with essential services
and jobs, bring crowding and overload the service in these regions. These jobs help
the economy, but threaten traditional family structures and debilitate regions left
behind. Wireless Broadband can inexpensively connect these regions and help reverse
this decline.
VoIP—Voice-over-Internet Protocol or VoIP is changing the worlds telecommunications
observes Richard C. Grange, the President and CEO of New Global Telecom. In the
USA, VoIP is regulation free and growing rapidly. Skype offers free computer-to-computer
voice service and has millions of users. Operating companies routinely use IP
services to carry long-distance traffic. We will all soon be using VoIP for low-cost,
affordable, communications.
Wireless Internet—Giving a farmer a telephone can double his income, notes Thomas
A Freeburg, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Strategy at MemoryLink.
Connecting workers to the Internet provides a similar advantage, but two billion additional
Internet connections will be needed if Asia Pacific is to reach North American
penetration levels.
Broadband Wireless—Majed Sifri, President and CEO of Redline Communications,
talks about the great need for high performance voice, data and video communications
for e-learning, e-government and surveillance. Broadband wireless can provide costeffective
coverage for mobile and fixed wireless networks and bridge widely separated
local area, WiFi, networks.
Mobile Data—Mobile operators in developing countries find that SMS, multimedia and
games play a major role familiarising users with mobile data, says Olivier Graff, the cofounder
and co-CEO of Swapcom. Nevertheless, the complexities and costs of serving
relatively unsophisticated users challenge operators. Device recognition software permits
over-the-air troubleshooting and service updates, making usage simpler and cheaper.
Charles Henshaw, the Executive Director and CEO of China Resources Peoples
Telephone Company, stresses that China, the worlds largest cellular user, still has low
market penetration, whilst Hong Kong has one of the highest. In both, voice still drives
mobile usage, but data services are proliferating.
Location Based Systems—New technology lets mobile operators accurately track
users, even in crowded city centres and indoors. Chris Wade, CEO of Cambridge
Positioning SystemsCPS, discusses how device manufacturers are now integrating
standardised, high accuracy location technology into phones and other devices. Location
technology is now used for everything from child and pet tracking, to locating laptops,
cash boxes and other valuable assets.
Billing—Yossi Shabat, Vice-President for the Asia-Pacific region at Comverse, claims
that the use of real-time billing reduces subscriber bad debt risk, lowers costs and
assures revenues in the Asia-Pacific region. Since real-time authorisation, monitoring,
charging and account updating make prepaid systems possible, they make mobile services
possible in the worlds developing regions. Real-time billing lets emerging markets
enjoy the same services available in developed markets.
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