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A Mobile Integrated Business Model |
| Author: |
Anderson Teixeira |
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Latin America Sales & Distribution Vice President |
| Organisation: |
Ericsson Consumer Products - Latin America |
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| Mobile telephony has changed considerably. Competition is intense and customer revenues have not grown as expected. The next generation of mobile handsets will have enhanced colour displays, polyphonic sound and be able to use sophisticated software. Models equipped for broadband multi-media content (voice, data, image and sound) are already on the market. A new "Mobile Integrated Business Model" takes advantage of the key aspects of this new generation - image, connectivity and entertainment - to increase user satisfaction and generate new operator revenues. |
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2 |
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Access Networks: Flexibility Makes Your CAPEX Budget Go Further |
| Author: |
Robert Kurz |
| Title: |
Managing Director |
| Organisation: |
Keymile Brazil Ltdby |
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| Access networks are the key to profitability for operators since they focus upon maximizing returns from deployed infrastructure. Last mile customer access allows operators to effectively deploy, manage and competitively price both the legacy and emerging services. Today, operators seek low investment evolution, not revolution. The use of flexible, modular and evolving multi-service capable products offers solutions for operators without having to select one or another access technology or having to build multiple networks in order to provide different services. |
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Article no.: |
3 |
| Topic: |
Brazil Network Advances with Next Generation Tech |
| Author: |
Christof Wahl |
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President |
| Organisation: |
Siemens ICN Wireline Communications |
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| Brazil is evolving steadily despite the global telecom downturn, due largely to the government's "information society" initiatives fostering Internet development and deployment of new services. Next Generation Network (NGN) technology and democratization of access is the key to solving some of Brazil's most pressing social and economic problems. The transition to NGNs will benefit operators by reducing operating expenses and facilitating new revenue- generating services. Systems will be needed to optimize the use of existing infrastructure while the transition progresses. |
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Article no.: |
4 |
| Topic: |
Creating Killer Applications or Killer Markets, the Road to ARPU Increase |
| Author: |
Dick Blom and Marcelo Fernandes |
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President, Marketing Manager |
| Organisation: |
CMG Latin America |
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| Growth of mobile telephony will depend upon the ability of mobile operators to analyse and understand their clients' needs and offer services they want at an affordable price. The growth of the industry depends more upon the availability of good services and applications than upon new handsets and fancier technology. Voice service will not bring much growth, but new applications, such as SMS and MMS, and making a full range of services available to pre-paid customers as well, will. |
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Article no.: |
5 |
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Internet Economy: To Succeed in the Internet Economy, Companies Must Learn to Play by a New Set of Rules |
| Author: |
Carlos Carnevali and Ricardo Santos |
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Operations Director, Director of Marketing |
| Organisation: |
Cisco Brazil |
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Doing business on the Internet requires different rules - not just Web site design. The fundamentals still apply; there is no magic. Many companies have technology and products, and the Internet just makes it easier, less costly, to compete.
Understanding customer needs and delivering innovative, customized products on a timely basis are vital, as are engaged employees and targeted leadership. New rules may apply, but the results are familiar: reduced costs, increased efficiency, new market opportunities and more loyal, satisfied customers. |
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Article no.: |
6 |
| Topic: |
Mediating Content and Services for Next Generation Networks |
| Author: |
Rick Woods |
| Title: |
Vice President |
| Organisation: |
Mediation Product Management |
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| The telecommunications industry is no longer driven by transmission and connectivity. To compete, operators must offer an increasingly broad range of services. To supply these services they draw upon content and applications from a variety of providers and share the revenues with them. Mediation programs provide billing records, fraud detection and statistical data drawn from any type of network. Real-time "active" mediation systems make it possible to handle the complex billing, information management and settlement functions that new sophisticated services require. |
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Article no.: |
7 |
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The Broadband Revolution: Telecommunications Loses its Individuality |
| Author: |
Juarez Quadros do Nascimento Esq |
| Title: |
Chairman Telecommunications Department, New York Office |
| Organisation: |
Greenberg Traurig LLP |
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28KB |
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| Telecommunications legacy service providers are squaring-off against providers of Internet- based services. Regulators in Latin America, and the world, are busy calibrating this behaviour in the telecommunications sector. The not-so-gradual blending of legacy services with, media, content, and entertainment offerings is replacing telecommunications as we knew it a decade ago. A new brand of bundled communications, information access, entertainment and telephony is emerging. The future of a company whose sole service is telephony is limited - and this "future" is now. |
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Article no.: |
8 |
| Topic: |
Telecommunications and Education in Brazil: A View of the Present and the Road Forward |
| Author: |
Jorge Werthein |
| Title: |
Director |
| Organisation: |
UNESCO |
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| Technological developments in telecommunications are facilitating changes in education. Experience with formal education and life-long, continuous staff training programmes provide strong evidence in favour of including telecommunications in a technology mix to provide education at a distance and in the classroom. A series of projects, in cooperation with UNESCO, is putting into practice ideas of leading educational theoreticians. Further progress in Brazil will depend upon the implementation of educational applications of the Fund for Universal Telecommunications Service, created in 2000. |
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9 |
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Article no.: |
10 |
| Topic: |
The Dynamics of Telecommunications Evolution Poses New Challenges to ANATEL |
| Author: |
Luiz Guilherme Schymura |
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President |
| Organisation: |
ANATEL, Brazil's National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency |
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| Brazil's model for the liberalization of the telecommunications sector has served well, but, considering the recent transformation of the sector, changes are needed. It will be a challenge for ANATEL, Brazil's regulatory agency, to foster competition, industry growth, user protection and the adoption of new technology. ANATEL will also have to guide the expected consolidation of the industry. Clear, dependable, transparent rules that protect the interests of private companies as well as the needs and rights of citizens are needed. |
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Article no.: |
11 |
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The Inter American Development bank Steps In to Support ICT Applications for Small Businesses |
| Author: |
Antonio Ca' Zorzi |
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Director |
| Organisation: |
ICT 4 BUS, Inter-American Development Bank |
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| Knowledge-driven innovation is a decisive factor in the competitiveness of both nations and firms. ICT and e-business are key elements for strengthening the competitiveness; they improve the productivity of private firms. Access to ICTs remains extremely uneven. The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), to foster the region's development, is sponsoring the "ICT Innovation Program for E-Business and SME Development (ICT-4-BUS)" to promote the use of ICT as a keyver of social and economic development and growth of the region. |
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Article no.: |
12 |
| Topic: |
The Path to New Generation Mobility and Its Impact on People |
| Author: |
Renato Furtado |
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President |
| Organisation: |
Lucent Technologies, Brazil |
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| Mobile services, due primarily to pre-paid services, have grown enormously in the last ten years; there will soon be more mobile than wireline phones in the world. Coming generations of broadband, high speed, wireless technology will bring a wide range of new services. Future generations of wireless devices will link all sorts of electronic devices, including cell phones, cars and household appliances and allow them to interact and work together to automatically anticipate certain needs or request services without human intervention. |
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Article no.: |
13 |
| Topic: |
Where Location-Based Services Meet Messaging and Entertainment |
| Author: |
Jerome Nadel |
| Title: |
Vice- President for Marketing Intelligence and Communications |
| Organisation: |
Telecom, Gemplus |
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24KB |
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| By 2006, 70% of mobile subscribers will use location-based services (LBS) generating 20% of operator revenues. LBS content providers use SIM - smart card - based systems to simplify interactive user interfaces and provide safe, confidential, personal data exchanges. SIMs allow operators to remotely activate services and content. Operators look to partnerships with LBS service and content providers to strengthen relationships with end- users. LBS services include city and entertainment guides, maps and driving directions via cell phones, among others. |
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