Welcome to 2006 World Mobile Congress in Munich !

The number of subscribers for mobile communications has increased much faster than predicted, particularly for terrestrial use. In the year 2000 the number of mobile subscribers was around 400 million worldwide and for the year 2010 more than 1.8 billion mobile subscribers are anticipated.

The major step from the second generation to third generation and further to fourth generation was the ability to support advanced and wideband multimedia services, including e‑mail, file transfers, and distribution services like radio, TV and software provisioning (e.g. software download). These multimedia services can be symmetrical and asymmetrical services, real-time and non real-time services. External market studies have predicted that in Europe in the year 2010 more than 90 million mobile subscribers will use mobile multimedia services and will generate over 60 % of the traffic in terms of transmitted bits. Only in China, the DGI predicted that there will be over 500 million mobile phones in China by year 2008, and over 150 million for multimedia applications.

Given the increasing demand for flexibility and individuality in society, the mean for the end-user might be assessed. Potentially, the value would be in the diversity of mobile applications and services, hidden from the complexity of the underlying communications schemes. This complexity would be absorbed into an intelligent personality management mechanism, which would learn and understand the needs of the mobile user, and control the behavior of their reconfigurable and open wireless architecture (OWA) terminals accordingly in terms of application behavior and access to future support multimedia services.

The wireless mobile industry is rapidly transitioning from proprietary architecture to more flexible, cost effective open architecture systems. This transition is creating interesting challenges for developers, manufacturers, integrators, operators and end-users as they wrestle with complexities of open wireless systems.

Therefore, this annual conference, driven by industrial leaders and famous scientists and technologists, is very timely and valuable for those who are involved in the research and development of next generation mobile communications.

Welcome on board !

Prof. Willie W. Lu, Palo Alto of Calif.
Founder and Technical Chairman, World Mobile Congress
Director and Chief Architect, U.S. Center for Wireless Comm.
Member of Editorial Board, IEEE SPECTRUM - "the flag of IEEE"
Former Sr. Principal Architect, Infineon & Siemens
Former Member, U.S. FCC - Tech. Adv. Council
Senior Advisor, over 20 Gov't ICT Authorities Worldwide

WMC'2006 USA HQ Contact (General Secretariat)

Mr. Steve Berger (DG)
e-mail: steve<at>delson.org
Fax: 001-603-590-0637
U. S. Center for Wireless Communications (R)
P. O. Box 19789
Stanford Univ., CA 94309
United States of America

WMC'2006 Munich Technical Contact

Dr. Wen Xu, Vice Chair of TPC
BenQ-Siemens A.G.

WMC'2006 Munich Local Organization Contact

Mrs. Susanne Wassell
Munich office of U.S.-CWC