Looking at the future of mobile communications - workshop
29 Maja 2001 - 29 Maja 2001
A workshop on mobile applications and services, organized by the European Commission's Information Society DG under the IST programme, will take place on Tuesday, 29 May in Brussels
The European mobile communications sector has been very successful notably through the development of the second generation (GSM) mobile telephony with European users having fully embraced the services that this technology provides (65 per cent of the EU population currently subscribe to GSM). As the technology evolves from 2G (mainly GSM) to 2.5 (GPRS) and to 3G (UMTS) the scope of the services and applications that can be provided is significantly enlarged, to an extent which is not yet fully understood in terms of possibilities and potentialities.
In order to ensure a coherent and harmonised development of European wide consumer appealing services and applications, the European Commission aims to launch a new initiative to support developing/trialing/validating of new multimedia rich services and applications on a Pan-European basis.
The European Commission has in two recent communications (the communication on 'Introduction of third generation mobile communications in the European Union: state of play and the way forward', and the e-Europe 2002 Action Plan) stressed the need for concrete actions regarding the mobile communications sector, in light of the fact that the markets for 2.5 and 3G remain largely untested. This workshop should help address this issue.For further information, please contact:
Esther Badiola Guerra
INFSO-D1Euroforum 0/0280
10, rue Robert Stumper
Gasperich L-2920
Luxembourg
Tel: +352-4301-34823
Fax: +352-4301-34959
E-mail: esther.badiola@ec.europa.eu
The European mobile communications sector has been very successful notably through the development of the second generation (GSM) mobile telephony with European users having fully embraced the services that this technology provides (65 per cent of the EU population currently subscribe to GSM). As the technology evolves from 2G (mainly GSM) to 2.5 (GPRS) and to 3G (UMTS) the scope of the services and applications that can be provided is significantly enlarged, to an extent which is not yet fully understood in terms of possibilities and potentialities.
In order to ensure a coherent and harmonised development of European wide consumer appealing services and applications, the European Commission aims to launch a new initiative to support developing/trialing/validating of new multimedia rich services and applications on a Pan-European basis.
The European Commission has in two recent communications (the communication on 'Introduction of third generation mobile communications in the European Union: state of play and the way forward', and the e-Europe 2002 Action Plan) stressed the need for concrete actions regarding the mobile communications sector, in light of the fact that the markets for 2.5 and 3G remain largely untested. This workshop should help address this issue.For further information, please contact:
Esther Badiola Guerra
INFSO-D1Euroforum 0/0280
10, rue Robert Stumper
Gasperich L-2920
Luxembourg
Tel: +352-4301-34823
Fax: +352-4301-34959
E-mail: esther.badiola@ec.europa.eu