Wireless Communications: Is the Future Playing Out as Predicted?

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Author(s): William Webb (Ofcom, UK)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 10
Source title: Interdisciplinary and Multidimensional Perspectives in Telecommunications and Networking: Emerging Findings
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Michael Bartolacci (Penn State University - Berks, USA)and Steven R. Powell (California State Polytechnic University - Pomona, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-505-6.ch002

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Networking and Telecommunications / Telecommunications

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Much of the rationale for the launch of 3G networks from 2000 onwards was to promote the expected rise in wireless data usage. Consumers were predicted to make widespread use of mobile internet and mobile TV but it was felt that the data rates offered by 2G networks were insufficiently fast to give them the experience that they expected. But more recently success has been achieved with different types of phone such as the iPhone and with new applications rather than higher data rates. This article takes a look at predictions of the future, considers whether they need to be modified in the light of events and makes its own suggestions as to where things might go from here.

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