New legal online music services are driving demand for both record labels and broadband suppliers. The next step will be to offer full portability by targeting the mobile world. According to Michel Bebel, President of Napster, the company has concrete plans for a mobile introduction.

Navigation and communication solutions in the car have finally reached a mass market. The 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show exhibited telematic solutions with a trend towards two-way communications and a more dynamic approach in applications. A development that requires a continued increase in bandwidth.

Manchester United has the ambition to be the most successful team in football. To achieve this, football and commercial operations need to work hand-in-hand. Ben Hatton, Head of Business Development explains how telecom services are driving this development.

The very same telecom services can establish closer relations or create distance, depending on the actual usage. France Telecom has recently published a study on how parenthood changes the social conditions that influence telecom-usage.

Telecom operators deal with a new area of competence - the moving image. Leonardo Chiariglione of the MPEG committee guides us through the MPEG-4 ecosystem, and Kishore Lulla of Bollywood 4 U talks about what he expects from the future with MPEG-4.

Although there is no broad killer application for enterprises, the growing demand for remote access to core company data is likely to drive adoption. AGA Market Director Olof Källgren "the cost is not really an issue if you can see that you will drive efficiency".

Competition, consumer awareness of price, technical developments, market growth... Four local correspondents give fresh in-depth reports on telecom in Brazil, India, UK and the US. The feature is divided into four parts that can be viewed separately.

Endemol, Sega and Sun on what it takes to make media mobile. William Linders, Executive Director of New Business Development at Endemol says the line between production and distribution is blurring, and only cooperation between all parties will get the market started.