Report: Data Roaming TOC

2.1. Definition
2.2. Features of International Roaming
2.3. Technical elements of International Roaming
- 2.3.1. GSM / UMTS networks
- 2.3.2. Devices
- 2.3.3. International Roaming mechanisms
- 2.3.4. Inter-operator interconnection
2.4. Commercial elements of roaming
- 2.4.1. Roaming subscriptions parameters
- 2.4.2. Roaming agreements
- 2.4.3. Inter-Operator Tariffs and Transferred Account Protocol
- 2.4.4. Retail roaming tariffs
- 2.4.5. Inter-operator billing and Data clearing
- 2.4.6. Inter-operator financial settlement and clearing
2.5. Data services availability when roaming
2.6. Other forms of international roaming
- 2.6.1. Inter-standard roaming
- 2.6.2. Satellite Mobile Networks
- 2.6.3. Wi-Fi roaming
- 2.6.4. SIM swapping

3.1. Technical and operational issues
- 3.1.1. Manage growing complexity of roaming agreements
- 3.1.2. Ensure end-to-end interoperability and QoS
3.2. Marketing and commercial issues
- 3.2.1. Improve service / tariff perception
- 3.2.2. Generate usage with new services
3.3. European regulatory issues
3.4. Evolution of data roaming tariffs and service bundles

Table 1: Simplified matrix of service compatibility
Table 2: Architecture of the IPX
Table 3: Comparison of GSM / 3G roaming and Wi-Fi roaming
Table 4: Intra-European retail data roaming rates
Table 5: Typical bandwidth requirements for various mobile applications
Table 6: Commercial deployment of GPRS and 3G networks
Table 7: Forecast of subscribers, 3G subscribers and average spending in EU27
Table 8: European statistics concerning International Roaming
Table 9: Preference for Mobile Data Services, consumer market
Table 10: Forecast of data roaming revenues and traffic evolution (intra-Europe)
Table 11: Forecast of SMS roaming revenues and traffic evolution (intra-Europe)
Table 12: Forecast of Total Data roaming revenues evolution (intra-Europe)
Table 13: Major providers of roaming transit and clearing

Figure 1 : Comparison of direct interconnection and transit models
Figure 2: Architecture of the GRX
Figure 3 : Logical architecture of the IPX
Figure 4 : GSM / 3G coverage
Figure 5: European retail roaming prices per SMS (April - September 2007)
Figure 6: Retail Data roaming rates per MByte (April - September 2007)
Figure 7: Evolution of wholesale tariffs for France (average price per minute for roaming-In)
Figure 8: Eurotariff: no impact on roaming traffic? (evolution of French roaming traffic)
Figure 9 : Commercial deployment of 3G networks
Figure 10 : Commercial deployment of HSDPA
Figure 11 : 3G and 3.5 handset sales forecasts, million units
Figure 12: Roaming Out revenue break-out: Spain
Figure 13: SMS compared to voice (Roaming-Out traffic statistics, Portugal)
Figure 14: Forecast for data roaming per Mbyte tariff (intra-Europe)
Figure 15: Forecast of data roaming traffic evolution (intra-Europe) -Base 100 in 2007
Figure 16: Forecast of data roaming revenues evolution (intra-Europe) - Base 100 in 2007
Figure 17: Alternative scenarios for data roaming revenues evolution (intra-Europe)
Figure 18: Forecast for SMS roaming tariff (intra-Europe)
Figure 19: Forecasts for SMS data roaming (intra-Europe) - Base 100 in 2007
Figure 20: Forecast of Total Data roaming revenues evolution (intra-Europe)
Figure 21 : Overview of the GPRS architecture

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