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Impact of new technologies on regulation

Impact of new technologies on regulation. Dr Tim Kelly, Head, Strategy and Policy Unit, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 15 March 2006. Challenge 1: Fixed/mobile convergence. Speed. Battleground for fixed/mobile convergence. Broadband. WLAN. 3G.

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Impact of new technologies on regulation

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  1. Impact of new technologies on regulation Dr Tim Kelly,Head, Strategy and Policy Unit, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 15 March 2006

  2. Challenge 1:Fixed/mobile convergence Speed Battleground for fixed/mobile convergence Broadband WLAN 3G Source: ITU Internet Reports 2004: The Portable Internet. Mobility

  3. Challenge 2:Four key technological enablers • Tagging Things: RFID • enabling real-time identification and tracking • Sensing Things: Sensor technologies • enabling detection of environmental status and sensory information • Thinking Things: Smart technologies • building intelligence into the edges of the network • enabling smart homes, smart vehicles etc • Shrinking Things: Nanotechnology • making possible the “networking” of smaller and smaller objects

  4. Challenge 3:Bundling and flat-rate pricing 12 4'500 4'000 10 3'500 8 3'000 2'500 US$ per 100 kbit/s per month Down speed (kbit/s) 6 Lowest sampled cost, 2'000 4 1'500 1'000 Median $ per 100 2 500 kbit/s Average down speed 0 0 2003 2004 2005 Note: Based on 70 economies that had launched broadband services by 2003. Source: ITU “Internet of things”. Prices sampled in July/August.

  5. Other important emerging policy challenges • Standards-setting and interoperability • Harmonization required particularly in the area of transmission protocols and RFID • Governance of resources • Naming, addressing and identification resources • Data protection and consumer privacy • Rules of data collection and storage • Spectrum trading • Encouraging use of market mechanisms while not conceding spectrum “ownership” • Content without frontiers • Updating 20th Century content “windows”

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