Essay on Future of Wireless Communications on the Telecommunications Industry

Introduction
Fifteen years ago mobile telephones were an exotic extravagance. Today, as cellular phones, they are often given away as freebies in support of marketing schemes and product promotions. Having become a mainstream voice communications medium, they are poised to take on new challenges, transmitting (fairly) high-speed data, video, and multimedia traffic, as well as voice signals to users on the move (Bertoni, 1994). The primary need is fueled by increasingly mobile workforces in every industry. According to the Strategis Group, an average of 15% of the U.S. workforce is classified as mobile (out of the office at least 20% of the time). The technology needed to tackle the challenges is known as third-generation mobile telephony (3G).

A common misconception exists that if you can find the right mix of features and capabilities appropriate to the new post-PC appliance environment, the new killer app equivalent of the desktop PC will emerge. Then, it is believed, business as usual will prevail, along a predictable straight-line development track as consumers rush out to buy the new computing and entertainment platforms.

People assume that we will see a repeat of the experience of the desktop PC in the '80s and '90s, but with ubiquitous wired and wireless connectivity thrown into the mix, and that many of the strategies that worked in the past will work in this new environment.
Assumptions like this are valid only if the underlying foundations are the same. In the PC market we had a system of interrelated activities that operated within a mature marketplace with established norms and direct causal links. Given an established set of services, OEMs, and channels, then technologies and products along a particular line of development were assured of some degree of market success.

However, we are going through a time much like that period in the '70s after the introduction of the microprocessor and before the desktop computer................

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