Note:

1. The presentation is not limited to the following points, but should only be considered as guidelines.
2. P represents the presenter and O, the opponent, in the braces.

• 25.3
  • GPRS charging schemes (P:Annukka Ahonen,O:Juha Kokko)
    1. Existing and future charging schemes for voice and data.
    2. List the evolving scenarios of relationship between operators and service providers in this regard.
    3. Issues related to linkage of GPRS and application level charging.(should it be bundled or not?)
    
    
  • Total cost of charging and billing: CAPEX and OPEX (P:Matti Swan,O:Annukka Ahonen)
    1. The existing capex and opex?
    2. The cost due to:
       • Key components of the system
       • Different pricing strategies
    3. An estimate of percentage increase in EX in a mobile Internet market.
    4. How can you minimise the EX?
    
    
  • Pricing peer-to-peer applications (P:Yang Qiu,O:Chen Xin Zhang )
    1. List the existing peer-to-peer services and the possibility of adopting them in the future mobile Internet
    2. Peer-to-peer pricing strategies in the fixed Internet.
    3. How will the peer-to-peer service scenarios change the pricing strategies in future mobile Internet? For Instance: operator acting as a service provider vs. bit-pipe model?
  
  
• 1.4
  • Auctioning of link capacity (P:Zheng Yan,O:Heikki Almay )
    1. List the various types of auctioning available.
    2. List the advantages and disadvantages.
    3. How we use this experience for any auctioning in mobile Internet? (GPRS roaming exchange?)
    
    
  • Edge pricing (P:Heikki Almay,O:Klaus Nieminen )
    1. Explain edge pricing and its advantages/disadvantages.
    2. How can it be useful in mobile Internet service charging?
    3. Practical challenges to implement this scheme in mobile Internet.
    
    
  • Requirements on Charging and Billing Systems for 3G (P:Jari Ruokolainen,O:Matti Swan )
    1. Brief description of existing charging and billing system.
    2. Requirements due to new players, heterogeneous technologies (UMTS/wlan) and user demands?
    3. How would the components of the system be influenced due to different types of pricing strategies?? Flat,usage or block to be considered??
  
  
• 8.4
  • Jose Requena Simple Competitive Internet Pricing (P:Jose Requena,O:Jari Ruokolainen )
    1. Flat vs. usage-based pricing.Who will win the game?
    2. List the pros and cons of each strategies.
    3. Is block pricing a better option than both flat and usage based?
    
    
  • EU regulation for Internet pricing (P:Klaus Nieminen, O:Sandro Grech )
    1. Regulations on fixed vs. mobile Internet. How are they different?
    2. List the regulations that might have an impact on pricing.(licensing,spectrum etc)
    3. The contribution of EU regulation in encouraging operator business?
    4. Future developments?
    
    
  • Innovative Pricing (P:Wenpeng Zhou,O:Simo Sorvari)
    1. Explain the concept.
    2. Significance of IP in mobile Internet?
    
    
• 15.4
  • Case: i-mode pricing (Sandro Grech,Zheng Yan )
    1. i-mode pricing strategy evolution until today.
    2. Drawbacks.
    3. Contribution of pricing to i-mode's success?
    4. can i-mode strategies be emulated in Europe?
    5. Is the fixed tax (9%) approach of DoCoMo sustainable in the long run?
    
    
  • Business models in M-services (P:Sauli Kamppari,O:Henri Koskinen)
    1. M-services vs. i-mode,OMA?
    2. Strategies in M-services.
    3. Is there a need for including application service providers?
    4. M-services is a set of guidelines,not standards.Any issues?
    
    
  • Congestion-based Pricing (P:Chen Xin Zhang ,O:Wenpeng Zhou)
    1. Explain the concept and list the various schemes so far.
    2. Advantages/disadvantages?
    3. How could this be useful in mobile Internet?
    
    
• 29.4
  • Paris Metro Pricing (P:Henri Koskinen,O:Renjish Kaleelazhicathu)
    1. Explain PMP.
    2. Cost of implementing PMP vs. other alternatives?
    
    
  • International interconnect charging (P:Simo Sorvari,O:Eino Kivisaari )
    1. List the existing relationships and charging schemes.
    2. How much does this contribute to the overall pricing of services?
    3. Is it biased in favour of the US carriers?(US has a greater share of IPv4 address space)
    4. Any influence of this in mobile Internet? (GRX?)
    
    
  • Pertti Hölttä SLA Trading Strategies (Pertti Hölttä ,Jose Requena)
    1. List the existing strategies in the back-bone and access networks?
    2. How would evolve for the future heterogeneous networks and users.
    3. Any related impact on pricing strategies?