ITU Internet Reports 2002: Internet for a Mobile Generation Purchase electronic version now (.pdf) 4th edition 2002, price: 100 Swiss Francs Executive Summary: PDF, HTML Table of contents List of tables List of figures List of boxes List of statistical tables

Previous Reports in the ITU Internet Reports series (previously known as "Challenges to the Network")

	Third report (December 2000) "ITU Internet Reports 2001: IP Telephony"
	Second report (February 1999, updated October 1999) "Challenges to the Network: Internet for Development"
	First report (September 1997) "Challenges to the Network: Telecoms and the Internet"

ITU Internet Reports 2002: Internet for a Mobile Generation

This report, the fourth in the ITU Internet Reports series, provides a timely analysis of the development of second- and third-generation mobile networks and technologies towards the provision of mobile Internet applications and services. As well as examining current technologies and applications and their varying degrees of uptake in different world markets, the report looks at some of the major regulatory and policy issues raised as the Internet takes its first steps towards becoming a truly mobile medium. 

The report covers the main technologies and applications for the mobile internet, the evolving market trends and corporate strategies, regulatory and policy aspects, societal implications, country case studies etc.  Click here for a summary of each chapter of the report

The final part of the report presents a series of statistical tables that present the latest available data for more than 200 economies worldwide in terms of their adoption of mobile communications and the Internet. The tables include a specially prepared Mobile Internet Index that attempts to gauge the likelihood of adoption of the mobile Internet in different economies.

English only. 240pp. SAP: 21294