Hi, Mike - "IMHO, it's just not going to happen. 2006 is a more likely timeframe. Mobile wireless users will have plenty enough bandwidth in the 2G technologies. So what will drive a push to 3G (customers willing to pay) just won't be there until 2006. But it's just my opinion only."
And mine. This whole question is at the center of the way wireless will evolve. I am puzzled at the way almost everyone on this thread is transfixed by the xG issues, when so many important questions remain unanswered.
This is not a question of whether slacker is right, or Maurice is right, or about how xG will one day evolve. Evolve it will. But all the questions about revenue models, debt, killer apps, infrastructure buildout costs, handset costs, wireless data market differentiation, and more, remain unanswered.
Everybody just seems to blindly assume that 3G will be here soon, and it will be a blazing success, despite these many unanswered questions.
Pardon me? I have yet to see anybody make that case.
Regards,
Jim |
