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Strategic Steps to be Taken for Future Mobile and Wireless Communications

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Mobile and wireless communication is very successful with globally increasing subscriber numbers. Existing and emerging systems are further enhanced by improved capabilities. In addition to cellular based systems other systems like WLANs (WiFi based on IEEE802.11 series) achieve widespread adoption. In addition, alternative radio access systems are becoming available based on industry standards (e.g. IEEE, WiMAX Forum, etc.) and are getting high interest in the operator community. Such systems may complement deployed and emerging systems for certain applications. However, alternative access systems with a different regulatory framework may also create additional competition between fixed line operators and wireless operators. Globalisation and liberalisation result in increased competition. Changes in the regulatory framework may change the access to and usage of frequency spectrum and also the value constellation and role models of the involved players. New players mainly from Asia are coming to the market in the manufacturer domain and also in the research domain. In addition, increasing competition between the original telecommunication industry and the wireless IT sector can be expected. In addition, international research activities have been initiated on systems beyond 3G. All these activities result in some kind of uncertainty in the market and the industry on the further development.

Based on the trends in mobile and wireless communications, the economic impact of emerging markets and global activities in international bodies and the research community the major issues to be considered are investigated in order to address the main strategic issue how to manage on regional and global basis these developments to achieve sufficient harmonisation of solutions. International cooperation is an important mean in the changing environment to share risks and resources and to prepare jointly future business and competition in the market.

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Werner Mohr was graduated from the University of Hannover, Germany, with the Master Degree in electrical engineering in 1981 and with the Ph.D. degree in 1987. From 1987–1990 he has been senior engineer at the Institute of High-Frequency Technology at the University of Hannover. Dr. Werner Mohr is with Siemens AG, Mobile Network Division in Munich, Germany since 1991. He has been responsible for propagation measurements and channel modeling and he has been involved in the European RACE-II Project ATDMA. From 1995 to 1996 he has been active in ETSI SMG5 for standardization of UMTS. Since December 1996 he was project manager of the ACTS FRAMES Project until the project finished in August 1999. Werner Mohr was Director of Strategic Pre-Development up to September 1998 and since October 1, 1998 he is Vice-President on Strategic Research Alliances in the mobile networks infrastructure division of Siemens Com. He was involved in the 5th Framework Program of the EU. Currently, Werner Mohr is the coordinator of the WINNER Project in Framework Program 6 of the European Commission and chairman of WWI (Wireless World Initiative). In addition, he is involved in the eMobility Platform. Werner Mohr was chair of the "Wireless World Research Forum – WWRF" from its launch in August 2001 up to December 2003. He is member of VDE and Senior Member of IEEE. 1990 he received the Award of the ITG in VDE. He is board member of ITG (Informationstechnische Gesellschaft) in VDE, Germany for the term 2006 to 2008. Werner Mohr is co-author of a book on “Third Generation Mobile Communications”.

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Mohr, W. Strategic Steps to be Taken for Future Mobile and Wireless Communications. Wireless Pers Commun 38, 143–160 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-006-9022-0

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