 Hi, my name is Thomas Michael Bohnert and I am at the ITU Telecom World 2013 in Bangkok. I was the moderator of a panel called Mobile Cloud Networking, which was squarely about turning the mobile network into a platform for applications and services. There has been lots of good discussions around technologies in particular, where SDN, NFV and cloud computing stacks like OpenStack, CloudStack and the likes are at the center of it. Obviously, there is good belief in the topic of cloud computing as a business and future technology for mobile operators. There is a differentiated service offering, but it also was clear that there is still a lack of a commonly agreed definition. Standards obviously play an important role for this and there has been lots of discussions how much of this is to be standardized, a very common approach in the telecom sector, whereas standardization doesn't play such a big role in the IT sector, of course. The session was really good, it was very positive. It showed that there is strong belief in cloud as a business model for the telecommunications sector, but it is also clear that there is lots of innovation and research still needed for turning this business model into reality.