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The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do

not necessarily reflect the opinions of the ITU or its Membership.

Cristina BuetiStrategy and Policy Unit (SPU)

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

ITU New Initiatives Workshop on Tomorrows Network Today

St. Vincent (Aosta), Italy

7-8 October 2005

Ubiquitous Networks Societies: The Case of

the Italian Republic


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Background and objectives

Provide an overview of the current

state of the art in the ICT andexplore the implications of a

future Italian Ubiquitous Network

Society

Italy has been chosen by the ITU as an ideal Case Studycandidate because of its rapid growth of telecommunicationsin the past few years.

Two Case Studies have been produced:

Ubiquitous Network Societies: The Case of the ItalianRepublic

Bridging the Gap: Taking Tomorrows Network into Today The Case of the Italian Republic


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ICT MarketThe real change toward Ubiquitous

Three driving forces

20'036

40'170

19'396

40'885

19'320

41'860

2002 2003 2004

IT TLC

+1.8%

- 3.2% -0.4%

+2.4%

60'206 60'281 61'180z High penetration and

technological leadershipin mobile telephony

z Accelerated growth and

increased penetration ofbroadband wirelineaccess

z The final plannedphasing-in of digitalterrestrial TV, which willcompletely replace

analogue TV by end-2006


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The path to Italys UbiquitousNetwork Society

Implementing solutions in line with theubiquitous computing paradigm

Any place

z The capacity to access and use a specific ICT service

through different access technologies and physical devices

Any time

z The service must be always on

By anyone and anything

z Enabling the use of a wide variety of non-PC equipment,

such as cell phones, car navigation equipment and RFID, in

addition to desktop and laptops.


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The Italian Governmentsupports the Ubiquitous Society

The Italian Government is committed to

making Italy a leader of the digital age

z Modernizing the country through the

widespread use of new information and

communication technologies

z Boosting the countrys competitiveness byaccelerating the spread of the online

economy and developing a model of the

information society


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Towards UbiquitousServices:

where we are now?


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Broadband Applications

Broadband on thetrain

TV and Cinema

over ADSL


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Mobile Computing

z The Italian Mobile market is ready to be

Ubiquitousz Italy currently ranks first in Europe with

more than 4 million UMTS subscribers

z Interesting applications include

M-payment (parking reservation and payment)

Mobile TV

M-Government services


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Mobile Computing


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Digital TV

Source: Siemens

2004 has seen thetake-off of digital TVin Italy

Planned switchover: end-2006?


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Public Utility Services

Relevant investments (in particular by the PublicAdministration) in the area of integration andconvergence

Experimental phase

for t-governmentservices

z Electronic Identity

Card

z National Services

Card


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Wireless

Expansion of Wi-Fi in Italy

z A large number of licenses issued

z Map of hot-spots (finally released)

z R&D entities interested in the potential of wireless

Some proof of concepts toward convergence:

z Motorola and TIM co-design, deploy and support a hybrid

Wi-Fi system to provide wireless Internet and intranet

access using TIMs existing user authentication solution

(SIM-based authentication).z The Ugo Bordoni Foundation (FUB) and Cisco Systems

experimented with a Wi-Fi multi-operator infrastructure,

which is a wireless network where different services (of

different operators) are provided, using the same hotspotsand access points.


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Domotics

Home appliances used to provide services via differenttechnologies and communication media

Four Italian companies AEM, Bticino, EuroMilano and

Fastweb have joined forces to build the first domotic

residential area, in Milan.


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RFID

Enabling factors:z Price reduction (up to 10 US cents for RFID tags)

z More reliability and efficiency

VeriChip: Technology

that cares

Merloni implements

RFID on its home

appliances as proof ofconcept


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Convergence is the real challenge


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Are we ready to realize theUbiquitous Networks Society in

Italy?

Yes!


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Thank you

The full case study (52pp) is available athttp://www.itu.int/tnt

Cristina Bueti

[email protected]

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