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• Application-specific charging in broadband is almost impossible to achieve in reality

• Offload of mobile broadband traffic to femtocells and WiFi will co-exist

• Mobile broadband cannot substitute for large-scale fixed broadband, especially in developed urban areas

• Subscriptions are not the only basis for service provision; it is critical to support transactional models as well

• SIM cards have many benefits - but also represent constraints on innovative business models

• Multiplicity is more important than convergence - multiple numbers, multiple devices, multiple identities, multiple service providers.

• LTE will not be massmarket until 2015, hampered by a lack of business model, spectrum, voice and device performance

• Mobile applications should be bearer-aware, not bearer-agnostic. This is a fatal flaw in IMS.

• Network neutrality will generally be guaranteed by market forces rather than regulation

• Context is more important than content.

• There is no mobile Internet. Just The Internet. Laptops & large-screen mobile devices are critically important.

• Almost nobody will 'have their first experience of the Internet on a mobile phone'.

• Mobile operators will relax their 3G data plan terms-of-service and permit VoIP traffic

• Metropolitan WiFi is a near-useless proposition.

• Despite new allocations, the mobile industry will be more spectrum-constrained in the future & this will define business models.

• Smartphones have limited appeal to the 70% of global mobile users on prepay tariffs.

• SMS will not disappear and be replaced by Mobile IM

• VoIPo3G will grow faster than VoWLAN, for both carriers & independent providers.

• Mobile search is largely pointless.