Skype's Jonathan Christensen presented these slides yesterday to the Emerging Communications Conference. Christensen is Skype's GM for Voice and Video.

Sorting the Mobile Mess

• Mobility is the last anchor to the old way
  • Fastest growth telecom service today
  • Spectrum scarcity makes it a perfect walled garden
• The good old days again
  • Closed networks.. Device lock-in.. Phone numbers with geographic bias.. Contracts.. YUCK !!
    
• Finally.. The Internet goes mobile
  • First successful auction - 22 MHz of “700 band” spectrum
  • “Open Platform” conditions apply
  • A new game begins..

and

The Next Ten Years

• The Era of Rich Mobile Internet Communications
  • Multi-modal communications (original SIP vision)
  • Real time HD video, Data, Presence, Text, Wideband Audio
  • Smart endpoints, open platform… Application innovation..
  • Fixed / Mobile Convergence – for real…
  • Mash ups of web based communications
  • Freedom with mobility…
• Natural segmentation of competencies
  1. Network infrastructure (pipes)
  2. Application innovation (developers)

I'll leave interpretation to Jim.