GSMA World Congress mobile communications 2010th

Traditional World Congress mobile communications take place in Barcelona from 15 to 18 February organized by the World Association of mobile network operators - GSMA, and for years together leaders and representatives of the leading operator in mobile communications and associated electronic communications and IT industry, as well as producers of content and applications for mobile communications services, and representatives of relevant government and regulatory body.

As part of this year's Conference was organized and the ministerial program, which brought together 350 representatives of relevant ministries and national regulatory authorities from 85 countries, with around 30 Ministers responsible for communications and information technology.

The work of the participating programs and the delegation of Croatian, which consists of Kreso Antonovic, Director of Communications and Electronic Mail address at the Ministry of Sea, Transport and Infrastructure, Miljenko Krvisek and Juraj Muzina, president and member of the Council of the Croatian Agency for Post and Electronic Communications (HAKOM).

This program first started round table of ministers and leaders of the administration's leading companies in the field of mobile communications (China Unicom, Hutchison, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Orascom, Qualcomm, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telenor, VimpelCom, Vodafone, etc.). At the roundtable, which are copresided Association GSMA CEO Rob Conway and Spanish State Secretary for Telecommunications and Information Society Francisco Ros Peran, attending national strategists for Development Policy and the leading men of industry provided a unique opportunity to exchange views on the future development of the mobile communications industry, potential growth opportunities and incentives for overall social progress.

Particular emphasis was placed on the development of "Internet of things", especially in terms of intensive users of services and connectivity ubiquitous networked devices, which would be due dostignutoj level density of mobile service users in the world should facilitate the transfer of economic productivity and efficiency in the mobile communications industry other sectors such as health care, education, transport, environmental protection and public administration services.

The challenges that lie ahead this industry, with currently 4.6 billion users of mobile networks (with the predictions of the 5 billion by the end of 2010.) And 945 million users 3G network in the world (with predictions to 1 billion by the end of 2010th), And prognosis growth of traffic in mobile networks that are already 2014th year should equate to the total world traffic data from the 2008th year, especially the perceived exposure Neelie Kroes gave the newly appointed Commissioner of the European Commission's digital agenda and Dr. Hamadoun Touré, Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Commissioner Kroes is in his first public appearance after assuming new duties noted several priorities of the EU in order to achieve the vision of development and progress, set out in the UN Millennium Development Goals, which notably includes the reduction of poverty, eradication of diseases in the world and ensuring sustainable levels of environmental protection. These priorities include the development of next-generation networks that will allow a reasonable return on investment, ensuring the required frequency spectrum (in the form of the digital dividend) for new services and technologies and a new comprehensive development strategy of broadband access, which would enable European citizens should have the new digital services with added value, new opportunities for economic growth and job creation, and by the European Commissioner announced a few months.

Special emphasis during the congress focuses on public and private sectors (such as the future cooperation of mobile operator networks with educational institutions), whose success depends largely successful and identified the potential use of information and communication technology (ICT) in achieving the Millennium Development Goals . The key to success lies in the successful paradigm shift - the principles of the success of GSM services and technology in Europe and the world, such as interoperability, economies of scale, open standards and competition, should be applied to services embedded mobile devices and M2M ( mobile-to-mobile) services.

In achieving these goals must primarily provide sufficient radio frequency spectrum, as pointed out, and Alexander Izosimov, president of the Association and CEO of the GSMA operator VimpelCom, which is presented to predict the 50 billion embedded devices that will enable "internet of things", but also considerable savings in several sectors. The energy sector is only 7% savings in on-line monitoring, environmental protection (40% reduction in CO2 emissions, which would be the 2020th year should bring savings equal to that achieved by turning off every third car in traffic), health (about 200 billion USD savings only in the field of health surveillance, the use of e-health), etc.

Achieve the development of broadband mobile communications, with currently 294 networks in 123 countries with 200 million users, with forecasts of 72 billion U.S. dollars of investment in this sector in 2010. year, with 74 operators who are preparing to offer LTE Services - 4th generation, with speeds up to 1 Gbit/s, the best evidence of the commitment of the global industry, and international strategy on profitability of investments in the accelerated development of this sector and to the benefit of other sectors of the economy and society on a global level.