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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
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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
cristina.bueti@itu.int