• Impact Analysis

    Objective: To understand and analyse the impact of changes in the mobile market on its value chain.

    1. Impact of new mobile content services over international roaming market.

    2. Role of GPRS Roaming Xchange (GRX) in international roaming market.

    3. Impact of new data services on the voice call revenues.

    4. Availability of excess capacity in the mobile networks.

  • Business case study

    1. Study on the introduction of new mobile data services.

      Objective: To identify the additional cost, revenue and appropriate time for roll-out of new services based on the data collected.

      Some such services could be:

      • Peer-to-peer services
      • Public WLAN
      • Mobile multimedia

      Note: Study on one such service would be considered as one topic.

  • Cost Analysis

    1. Study the costs involved in the introduction of new mobile services.

      Note: Study on one such service would be considered as one topic.

  • Mobile Content service issues

    1. Role of content brokers in conventional GSM/GPRS networks

      Objective: To study how a content broker (e.g. news provider) could increase revenues of conventional network operators? How different parties can benefit from this kind of scenario?

    2. Pricing components involved in a Service operator-Network operator relation.

      Objective: To study the various types of services offered by mobile network operator to a service operator. What kind of fees (e.g. fixed fee for IMSI block, fee per subscriber, traffic fees for voice, messages and data) are to be paid for these components to network operator by the service operator?