Industrial and commercial successes of the kind that Europe has achieved in mobile communications as a result of the GSM standard will not be repeated unless a concerted effort is made to invest a critical mass of research resources in this area, by integrating public and private sector efforts on a European scale. ###>Les technologies de l'information et de la communication révolutionnent le fonctionnement de l'économie et de la société, engendrent de nouvelles manières de produire, de commercer et de communiquer.