The mobile industry “desperately needs an agreed upon framework of open standards to ensure the next generation of mobile applications are winners with customers”, according to a panel at the Web 2.0 Expo. The panel included Paola Tonelli from the Open Mobile Alliance, Illkka Raiskinen, the senior VP of Multimedia Experiences at Nokia, Ajit Joakar of Open Gardens and Mike McCune from Tellme, reports Information Week. Unsurprisingly the big recommendation was open standards, and also expanding services that are independent of networks and live on the edge of the network, ubiquitous connectivity, and fixed and predictable pricing. Raiskinen said that Nokia has not done enough to provide a better user experience to push and pull content (despite its best efforts): “We as legacy companies have to be faster to adopt standardization to be competitive and be careful not to fragment the industry.”