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• Home Page
• Site Introduction
  • The site's objectives
• Defining Visions
  • Introduction
  • Changing Visions in Mobile Communications
  • Uncertainty and Vision
  • How Are Visions Constructed?
• Industry Mapping
  • The explanation:
    • Introduction
    • Vertical integration and vertical specialisation
    • The layer model
  • The diagrams
    • Map1: Basic layer model
    • Map2: Products and services by layer
    • Map3: Companies by layer
• Key Questions
  • Introduction
  • The definition of the telecoms industry and the future of its companies
  • Fixed communications:
    • Section 1: Questions regarding the incumbent telecoms companies and the new facilities-based operators ( questions 1-8)
    • Section 2: Questions regarding the drivers of change in the network layer, Layer II (questions 9-10)
    • Section 3: Questions regarding the specialist facilities-less service providers' survival (question 11)
    • Section 4: Questions regarding the specialist technology suppliers (question 12)
    • Section 5: Questions regarding the IT companies and e-commerce (questions 13-14)
    • Section 6: Questions regarding the customers/users (question 15)
    • Section 7: Questions regarding national systems (question 16)
    • Section 8: Questions regarding the performance of telecoms companies (question 17)
  • Mobile communications
    • Technical features that characterise mobile communications
    • Regulatory features that characterise mobile communications
    • Section 1: Questions regarding the future demand for mobile communications (question 1)
    • Section 2: Questions regarding the strategies of the mobile operators (question 2)
    • Section 3: Questions regarding mobile communications and the industry layer model (question 3)
    • Section 4: Questions regarding the impact of third generation (3G) systems (question 4)
    • Section 5: Questions regarding mobile access to the internet (question 5)
    • Section 6: Questions regarding facilities-less service providers (question 6)
• Guest Visionaries
  • Introduction
  • Visionaries table
• VisionCheck
  • Introduction
  • Survey form - fixed networks
  • Survey form - mobile networks
• Current Events
  • Introduction
  • Events table
• Articles
  • Introduction
  • Articles table
• Workshop
  • Introduction
  • The five workshops areas
    • Fixed communications - equipment and networks (Layers I and II)
    • Fixed communications - services and customers (Layers III to VI)
    • Mobile communications
    • Current events
    • Miscellaneous (including Guest Visionaries)
• Key Resources
  • Introduction
  • Web links
    • Academic research
    • Investment analysts and business consultants
    • Business newspapers and magazines
    • Telecoms and internet sites
    • Industry regulators and trade associations
    • Companies by layer
      • Layer V: applications layer (including contents packaging)
      • Layer IV: navigation and middleware
      • Layer III: end-to-end connectivity
      • Layer II: network
      • Layer I: equipment and software
    • Technical glossaries
  • Site bibliography
• Site Staff
• Site Map