Enabling the future mobile environment

This talk outlines the technology evolution and research needs to enable an increasingly user-centric and rich communication environment for consumers, mobile workforce and communities. The mobile society demands natural communication and seamless access, across mobile, portable or fixed domains, with bearer and device independence. This prospect of ubiquity or the notion of technology-independence is indeed possible by technology innovations and new research, in harmony with new ecosystems and partnerships appropriate for the new paradigms.To evolve the fixed-mobile convergence and the IP converged service environment, there is an increasing need to evaluate and optimize across different layers: broadband access, IP core engine and networking, common session control and service architecture, service creation, choreography and delivery, and of course user interface and user experience. This evolution will involve sensing, discovery, and personal-area networking to enhance the "reality" and create smart user spaces; it will include remote configurations, reconfigurability, and dynamic adaptation to the needs of the context and the intention of the user; and it will also demand the precious research on IP multimedia networks and broadband access technologies.Our collective energy, focus and partnership will enable and serve an increasingly user-centric, personalized and rich mobile communication environment.