ive Product Development practice will rise in the wake of financial meltdown and globalization. The absence of equality and instability in many developing nations will continue to cause brain drain. The dependence on managed services and knowledge management due to globalization will rise since these practices will result in reducing cost and increasing productivity. 13.8.2 2013-2015 During this period GSM will start to phase out and IMS will start to appear on the horizon. The Network Sharing activities will be on a high gear with the deployments of 3G in the developing and EPS in the developed world. We expect the convergence of media, telecom and financial services will continue to become wider and more visible in the years to come. The following sections act as a summary. 13.8.2.1 Devices The Smart Phones are expected to have HDI (high density interconnects) boards that will provide greater wiring density per unit area and higher electrical performance than conventional boards. The use of Multimode Devices will require the use of innovative Multi-band antennas. We can expect to see some penetration of Multi-Mode mobile TV capability on single multimode handsets as well. Next Generation Mobile Communications Ecosystem 13.8.2.2 RAN GSM will start to phase out during this period in many of the developed countries. A number of tier-2 and tier-3 EV-DO operators are expected to migrate to EPS. This depends on the success of EPS and on the failure/acceptance of 3GPP2 evolution path for its EV-DO technology. 13.8.2.3 Transport As GSM starts to phase out and 3G gets deeper in the developing nations, the TDM only based microwaves will start the descent to their final resting place. The dependency on FTTH (fiber-to-the-hub) and on FTTH (fiber for the last mile (to the radio towers)) will continue to rise. As fiber goes deeper in the networks, the importance of Gigabit Ethernet radios can be ignored. 13.8.2.4 Core and OSS 2014 will be the year of IMS as we expect the key issues will be resolved by then and EPS will be de