Third Generation Mobile Services – Bringing New Lifestyles
The world of telecommunications has changed rapidly over the last decade as we have entered the new era of convergence between mobile networks, broadband communication and the content sector. Consumers are demanding for a advanced services such as mobile TV, mobile broadband Internet and other value added applications; the demand has increased tremendously in recent years and is considered as a key driver for further growth of ICT industry. Speed and band width are two main support factors to supply the required wish list of mobile subscriber’s for attaining maximum value from mobile handset way beyond a simple voice call. In the growing scenario, where mobile voice services become uniform with increasing price competition, innovation data services made possible by 3rd Generation (3G) networks are important for generating profit and growth. According to International Telecommunication Union (ITU) mobile network or service based n the International Mobile Telecommunication-2000 (IMT-2000) family of global standards is commonly referred to as “3G mobile”. These mobile systems provide higher transmission rates then possible in second generation (2G) wireless technologies, enabling many advanced applications such as mobile video conferencing, video phone/mail, mobile TV/Video player and digital audio/video delivery.
Thus, the true provision of communication, information and entertainment via the mobile platform will be impossible without the successful dissemination of 3G services. The unprecedented necessity of developing 3G mobile services has escorted operators globally; today there are approximately 1billion 3G subscribers in over 159 economies. From global perspective, the deployment of 3G mobile services is significantly more advanced in some countries than others. It would be important to explore the factors that contribute to deployment rates of 3G mobile services among countries. As important as these factors are in upsetting the next phase of mobile technology development, consumer access to advanced mobile broadband and eventual convergence. As 3G approaches in a society, the mobile phone becomes a life management tool for business, work and leisure. Consumer behaviour is driving the development of applications and services. The key to commercial success of 3G technologies lies in understanding consumers, their lifestyles and attitudes and delivering the winning applications. The mobile industry is reconfiguring itself to enter next stage of development, a better understanding of the ways along with associated factors to foster 3G diffusion is fundamental to the continuous growth of this market.
Sources: http://teletimesinternational.com/articles/4215/third-generation-mobile-services-%E2%80%93-bringing-new-lifestyles Editor by, Muhammad Amir Malik
Cloud Computing – Growing Scope for Public Sector
Cloud computing is a recent revolution in the world of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s) that enables a convenient way to share resources. It is model providing on-demand network access to configurable IT devices and services gathered together as a network of computing resources located anywhere, being shared among its users. Cloud computing deployment models cater the requirements of private entities, public organizations and general end-users. A private government cloud model is a deployment model is exclusively managed by public organizations where they may offer a number of services to general public or they may utilize the cloud for their own purpose by sharing the resources. The philosophy of cloud computing in public sector can be illustrated by going back in time when every household, town or village use to have its own water well; cloud computing for the public sector works in a similar way. Federal Government’s Information Technology (IT) environment is generally characterized by low asset utilization, duplicate resources, replication of systems and an environment which is difficult to manage. Cloud computing has the prospective to assist and play its role in reducing this lacking by improving government service delivery mechanism. The cloud computing model can significantly help public sector agencies struggling with the need to provide highly reliable innovative services quickly despite resources limitation.
Similarly, for the public sector cloud computing holds incredible possibilities to deliver public value by increasing operational effectiveness and responding faster to critical growing requirements. Several Government on International arena have already started deploying clouds to avail the apparent opportunity to deliver public services and maximizing efficiency. Exploring the prospects of cloud computing in Pakistan, one of the most difficult challenges faced by the government has been effective sharing of information technology resources both at federal and provision level. There have been broad efforts of developing core e-government programs. Government has invested enormous effort and money into several programs with some notable success stories. Cloud computing offers an opportunity to be more efficient, agile and innovative through more effective use of IT investment. The upcoming era of staggering growth in IT-based communication and information sharing where every official task is likely to be performed over computers calls for implementation planning of cloud computing in public sector. The availability of a hosting platform over a cloud could be utilized by the local developers to supply their contribution to information-based society approach. The benefits of cloud are already a reality for government organization the world over. Government can gain, employ proven values that early adopters have already gained.
Sources: http://teletimesinternational.com/articles/3951/cloud-computing-%E2%80%93-growing-scope-for-public-sector Editor by, Dr. Mohammed Yaseen.
Kaspersky Reveals Changing Face of Cyber-CrimeKaspersky has predicted that the option of targeting corporations will be the more appealing one for cyber-criminals, as by 2020, targeting individual users will also become very complex as biometric user identification and payments protection systems become the norm moving towards 2020. Cyber-criminals will have to evolve with the new operating systems, changing the way write malicious code as these systems develop. Cyber-crime landscape will be divided into two groups; one that targets business, sometimes on demand and one that targets services used in everyday life. Attacks such as commercial espionage, database theft and corporate reputation-smearing attacks will be high demand. Kaspersky predicts that hackers and IT specialists will go head-to-head in this cyber-war and that state anti-cyber-crime agencies will also be brought into that battle, primarily dealing with threats to Windows and Linux and Unix systems. The second group of cyber-criminals will target services such as transport payment card, that are in everyday use, to compromise these systems and make free use of them. This group will focus on hacking these systems, stealing funds from them, and altering user data for these services.
Kaspesky has predicted that the technologies used in that field of communications will begin to make communication close to real-life and by 2020, Kaspersky says, typing on the keyboards to access the Internet will be a thing of the past. This means that spammers will have to seek out new ways of sending solicitous communications to internet users. The company says that spammers will begin to change from desktop attacks to mobile attacks and spam volumes will skyrocket as the cost of communications shrinks. Kaspersky analysts have said that most significant trends of the last ten years, from 2001 to 2010 were: Mobility and miniaturisation, the transformation of virus writing into cyber-crime, Windows maintaining its leading position as a vendor of operating systems for personal computers, intense competition in the mobile platform market with no clear-cut leader, a boom in social networks and search engines and increased internet shopping.
Sources: http://teletimesinternational.com/articles/2907/kaspersky-reveals-changing-face-of-cyber-crime Editor by, Georgina Enzer
What Would You Do With Blindingly Fast Broadband?
What does 100Mbps mean for you? At nearly twenty times the average broadband speed in the most European countries, a 100Mbps connection would make it possible to download an entire music album in five seconds, a TV show in 30seconds and a high-definition movie in just seven minutes. A lucky 0.5% if internet users in Europe are currently able to access this kind of speed, according to figures publishes by the European Commission. But ultra-fast broadband over fibre to the home (FTTH) is about much, much more than just doing the same things faster. We already know that, with bandwidth, the only way is up. We can easily see that more bandwidth will be needed by extrapolating from current requirements. We know that fibre is the only transmission medium that can support this increase in demand. Historically, the demand for bandwidth has grown year to year, pushed by faster computers, higher-resolution displays and the trend towards downloading more images and videos. In fact, the increase in bandwidth is so predictable that internet usability.
Today all of its customers are behind DSL lines and the firm is frustrated by the restrictions that this imposes. It is only possible to upload two low quality video feeds from home to the control centre simultaneously; with FTTH they would have the upload capacity to monitor all the rooms in the patient’s home. With an ordinary DSL connection, it is very difficult to add rich media-video, sounds and maps. This is a tool that calls out for a fibre connection, directly linking the rich media to the pupil. As you can see, many different kinds of services are possible over fibre. Some next-generation services will always-on, running in the background while the homeowner gets on with other tasks. The modern family is a connected family, which means that different members of the same household will be accessing the Internet simultaneously. If you add in government=-backed services such as e-health and remote learning, it is easy to see how this will add up to significant consumption of bandwidth. The answer to the question: “What services will fill the pipe?” is simply “All of them “.
Sources: http://teletimesinternational.com/articles/4623/what-would-you-do-with-blindingly-fast-broadband Editor by, Nadia Babaali
ICT and development in Latin America
In order to discuss the impact Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has on development in Latin America, it is important to first note its importance in the region. As illustration in the case of the rural school in Argentina or anywhere in the region, ICT offers greater access to information, education and employment opportunities, increased earning and purchasing power, as well as long-term economic gains, making it an indispensable catalyst for real progress. In the globalization era, ICT represent rapid economic growth, and improvement of production processes for small-scale farmers and agro-enterprises, as well as businesses of all sizes. It is safe to say that organization is expected to continue increasing and its effects are going to be felt more and more, even in the remotest of areas. To survive in this rapidly globalizing world, it is imperative that ICT become a policy priority for the government in the region, so their people and respective countries can compete in the global economy. The private sector too has a role to fulfil. It has been an important player in the expansion of ICT, but like government, it needs to become more of a driving force if it wants to expand into markets to sell its goods and services. The internet and emerging technologies have become the key in today’s society for the efficient transportation of goods, dissemination of information and provision of services; hence of utmost important in helping bring down economic barriers and providing access to the latest advancements in all areas of life. All the United Nations member states and more than 20 international organisations approved eight international development goals, to be achieved by the year 2015. To achieve these Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s), as they are called, a number of target activities and indicators were defined. One critical target states: “In co-operation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications.” This target focuses especially upon disadvantaged communities, in an effort to help reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
Sources: http://www.connect-world.com/index.php/component/k2/item/10800-ict-and-development-in-latin-america Editor by, Hector R. Alonso
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