The Personal Virtual Network Service and opportunities for Mobile Virtual Network Operators

摘要

This paper presents a novel service aiming at assisting the end-user in the management of his different devices. Such a service has great value for Mobile Virtual Network Operator who must be able to differentiate with other operators. Nowadays the user is confronted with several different devices such as a plain-old telephone, a mobile phone, a cordless phone, and a PC or a workstation. In principle, all these devices can be autonomous and function independently of each other without any coordination, but the proposed service will allow the user to handle them all via his personal Virtual Network Service and hence consider them all as his Personal Virtual Network (PVN) i. e. as one big terminal (the virtual terminal).