Future Scenarios: What are the Future Services and Applications?
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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The current trend within the development of the telecommunication networks indicates that the user will constantly be connected to the network independent on the locations and the covering network. In the following, this is defined as "Always on --- everywhere". Being always on everywhere requires more heterogeneous access networks, more intelligent services and a significant increase in the available capacity in the transmission- and the core network as well as a technology convergence.In the following, we will cover some of the ongoing trends towards a common high capacity infrastructure and what it requires to get there.An overall view will be presented on how the services, their availability, the bit rates and the infrastructure may develop. Most of the examples are seen from a cellular operator's perspective due to the background of the authors. The content of the paper reflects only the view of the authors and not necessarily the one of the TeliaSonera group.