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Technology Stocks : Access Anywhere, Anytime. Cell Phones/PDA's join the Net

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To: Mark Oliver who wrote (22)7/14/1999 10:44:00 AM
From: slacker711   of 332
 
A view of the future wireless world...Warning
the rest of the article is really long and most of it concentrates on global wired
bandwidth.

techweb.com

Sidebar: Will 3G Wireless Replace Fixed Connections?

Fixed broadband combined with Bluetooth might obviate many wireless calls.
But an equally strong argument can be made that third-generation wireless
solutions will remove the need for fixed connections entirely. That argument is
based on the fact that third-generation wireless solutions (based on the ITU's
IMT-2000 standard) support significant data speeds-five to 10 times the 28.8
Kbps that many telecommuters rely on today. Tomorrow's Web phone will be
able to make voice calls via the traditional wireless phone network (1) or to
place IP telephony calls (2) routed via gatekeepers (3) and gateways (4). When
it comes time to surf the Internet or check e-mail, the laptop simply connects via
Bluetooth (5) to the Web phone, which in turn is connected via the 3G wireless
network into the global IP network (6). The laptop can then connect to a Web
site or via the corporate VPN to internal corporate servers (7). The 3G wireless
approach is conceptually elegant, but is likely to be at least a couple of years
behind the fixed alternative.
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