Policy Discussion: Mobile & Converged Device Plans Common Solutions Group (9/25/2008)

Mobile Devices Landscape (Circa 2000) Handspring Visor Palm m505 Palm IIIc Treo 300 Windows Mobile Smartphone iPaq Palm-Size PC RIM 850 RIM 5800 6200

Sept. 2008 Verizon AT&T Sprint T-Mobile BlackBerry iPhone Windows Mobile Palm OS Symbian Android

Topics for Discussion Service Interests and Requirements What we are doing on our campuses Discussion: What is the right strategy?

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State of Mobile Small decreases in number of land lines and calls on landlines Landlines no longer a value proposition (too much cost for too little use) Almost all students, faculty and staff have a cell phone; most are personally owned Desire to only have to deal with a single device (phone, cell, data, pager, etc): Seduced and in lust with the iPhone (want it to meet all needs) SmartPhones are way too expensive on top of landlines (but everyone wants one) Would eliminate land lines in residence halls if it weren't for security issues Continuing to make WiFi more available and more dense Multiple identities are important (public phone, cell phone, home phone, pager) Implementing carrier agnostic, in-building cellular coverage  (95% of space) Using land-line VoIP in the places it makes sense VoWLAN works but it's clunky Carriers rule the mobile world Committed to the Work Anywhere Initiative (anything, anywhere, anytime)

Service Interests and Requirements Faculty and Staff Redirect funds spent on land-line service The University phone number is useful for faculty and staff voice service To individuals to manage their university identity To the university to retain control of business process To manage funding Multiple identities via phone numbers on a single mobile device The device may be owned by an individual or the university The device(s) must be one(s) that people want The device must have additional capabilities (e.g. email, calendar, text messaging, web, and other applications etc.) Students Decrease cost of communication

Where we believe this is headed Voice will be an application WiFi will be the transmission medium of choice for in-building service (Residential and Enterprise) Leverage University volume to reduce mobile costs (also retain control & University #'s) Everyone has a mobile device and a University number (partially funded by no landlines) University phone numbers routed by Presence (mobile, or unified messaging<email>, or admin assist) Cellular will be available in-building as a secondary medium and outside as a primary medium An added benefit of dual mode devices together with dual in-building infrastructures is the redundancy provided Eventually carriers will stop marketing voice minutes and just sell an IP pipe  (really) Carriers will rule less of the mobile world... our glass is half full

MIT: Issues Complex Mobile Devices Landscape Fixed Mobile Convergence (VoIP on Mobile Devices) Future Mobile Web : Open Source Mobile Identity (Kerberos, X.509 Cert, Shibboleth, etc.) Mobile Application Development Other Interesting Stuff: NFC, USIM, etc.

MIT Mobile Web: Before

MIT Mobile Web: After

MIT Mobile Web: Key Statistics

MIT Mobile Web Version 1.0 Browser Detection Content Generator iPhone Smartphone Feature Phone Other Content Generator People Directory Campus Map Shuttle Schedule Events Calendar Stellar Student Careers Emergency Info 3Down MIT LDAP Server MIT IMS Server NextBus MIT Events Server MIT Stellar Server Careers Office Emergency .mit.edu 3Down .mit.edu

Challenges: Mobile User Authentication 6/18/2008