Policy control and mobile video: Options for managing growth

This brief describes the use of policy control to manage the delivery of video over mobile networks. When delivering video services, it is important to balance the delivery of video to users with the impact on the network.

There are a number of potential technical solutions that could be developed depending on the operator’s particular market, competitive and regulatory environments.

This paper outlines several example approaches, briefly outlines which network technology might provide supporting functions and discusses several particular related issues.