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I was going through some old publications and presentations today and found a blast from the past. At a Feb 2004 “Mobile Europe” conference in Bremen, Germany I made the following predictions for 2010

Trends are:
• Mobile phone will be commonly used for M-commerce and web-browsing.
• Mobile presence of organizations will develop.
• Community-based WLANs/WWANs start a powerful movement “Broadband for everybody” [This will] strongly impact pricing for telco data services
• Integration of form and function, like:
– Mobiles/PDAs/Stereo/credit cards/ car keys etc. will merge
– Mobile Services and Internet Services (&Technologies) will merge
– An increasing number of mobile services will make use of /require contextual
information about subscribers (location, profile, etc.)
Predicting the future:
• As mobile and Internet converge, even small companies or individuals [1 guy in a garage] will be able to provide complex telecoms. services
• Open Source Community will be increasingly important in telecoms software
– development. API standards will open up the network.
– The need for revenue generating services will ensure interoperability and/or standardisation.