The technical, economic and regulatory and policy analyses presented so far in this report have begun to paint a picture of the mobile Internet landscape on a global level. To further complete this picture, this chapter looks at the experience of a number of economies, in different world regions, with different levels of economic and social development. The chapter is based on research carried out for specially commissioned ITU case studies on the topics of third-generation mobile licensing, Internet diffusion, and broadband, carried out on Chile and Venezuela, Ghana, Hong Kong, China and China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Sweden and Thailand. In addition, this chapter draws upon a comparative analysis of the transition from GSM to IMT-2000 on 3G mobile licensing policy. The countries selected, which vary widely in terms of regional, geographical and economic status, offer useful examples of different mobile markets and licensing procedures. These case studies were carried out under the ITU New Initiatives Programme, and form part of the research carried out by ITU on the latest trends in telecommunications and information and communication technologies.