You have probably heard about the Mobile Internet often enough. But do you really know what it is all about? In this edition, top experts of the communications industry provide you an insight into the mobile future.

Mobile Internet will be much more than just a way to access Internet from a mobile device. Mobile Internet will be about the integration of communication services to our everyday life. We will use the Mobile Internet to help control our lives and to give us more time to do the things we choose to do. Mobile Internet will eventually change the way of life as we have seen with the introduction of telephone or television.

Mobility and the Internet will be smoothly unified in Mobile World. This means solid integration of many existing technologies using thorough understanding of mobility and the unique characteristics of mobile business. It is also necessary to create a range of completely new technologies to support new services and to meet new challenges of the Mobile World. This all must be done without any excessive complexity for the customer of Mobile Internet services. Nokia's solution to cover these demands is the Mobile Internet Technical Architecture (MITA).

MITA covers a wide range of issues that are needed to build the Mobile Internet. The book serie introduces some of the most essential ones:

Technologies Section describes the existing technologies that will form the solid basis for future innovations, development work and products of Mobile Internet. The reader will learn about the technologies that already exist either in research, the product development phase or in actual products.

Standardization Section introduces a set of standardization organizations. It also discusses the role and challenges of standardization in the new Mobile World.

Solutions Section gives insight into the current Nokia solutions. It provides information how various technologies are combined to produce systems and services today.

Tools Section addresses one of the corner stones of MITA: tools for application and service development. The section describes few examples how the applications and services can be developed with Nokia tools for Mobile Internet.

Functions Section describes set of key functions that will be essential for Mobile Internet. The reader is given more future oriented view on how technologies will evolve. This includes topics like browsing, messaging, rich call, QoS, security etc.

Reference Implementations Section gives a view on MITA Reference Implementations that are used to validate new concepts, to gain experience and to smoothen way for products based on latest technologies.

The book series also contains an accompanying CD-ROM.