MOBILE COMMUNICATION

The way the world of telecommunications has evolved from the beginning has been through monopolies. Even today, when you want a telephone, you go to the telephone company. And it wasn't that long ago, that the phone company was one company in the whole United States, AT&T. The telecommunications industry has grown up with one company, [one] carrier doing all the creative thinking, and deciding what the products are, and what the services are, and how to bill for those services. ... The change that is happening in the world is the result of competition. The fact is there really is not one solution for all problems. At least for people talking to people, the wires don't make any sense at all. The fact that we've spent billions of dollars creating this wired network, doesn't mean that it's the optimum way or the way it's going to be when the technology catches up to that of the wired network. The really fundamental thing is, it doesn't make any sense to have a telephone number via location and have someone forced to be at that location to receive a phone call. We've learned that. We've learned it more in places like Finland, where more than half the traffic is over cellular systems. The systems are good enough that people use the cellular systems as their basic telephone.

The same thing is going to happen on the Internet -- [that is,] personal use of the Internet. I'm not talking about sending huge amounts of data from one computer to another. I'm talking about people on the Internet, and ultimately that is going to be wireless. There are a bunch of problems to be solved, but ultimately wireless is the way to go.

The internet is the best source for information access and exchange.With internet enabled WAP phones one can stay online and in touch with friends and business contacts. GSM and CDMA are the most popular network systems.used the world over today.2G systems like GPRS(General Packet Radio Service) and 3G systems like UTMS are going to allow packet transmission ,which will increase the speed of wireless internet to 171.2 kbps. WAP is designed to work with most wireless networks such as CDPD, CDMA, GSM, PDC, PHS, TDMA, FLEX, ReFLEX, iDEN, TETRA, DECT, DataTAC, Mobitex. It can be built on any operating system including PalmOS, EPOC, Windows CE, FLEXOS, OS/9, JavaOS etc.

The new EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution) air interface has been developed to meet the growing bandwidth needs. Using EDGE operators can offer wireless data applications.for customers and businesses that allow web infotainment ,video-conferencing and wireless services.