| If nothing else, I suspect that 4G in wireless, when we actually get close enough to it to tell, which we aren't, will turn out to be a lot like 4G in computer languages, i.e., so many different things that the G doesn't have much meaning any more. Each generation in computer languages saw an exponential diversification in what was contained within each generation, enough so that even by 3G we had such a wide variety that it is really difficult to see them as all parts of the same stage. Add a G and it is that much worse. Wireless is not nearly as haphazard as computer languages, of course ... funny thing about the need for interoperability ... but, ask yourself, if we get high data rates and semi-universal coverage, what exactly is it that the wireless standard itself is going to add? More likely, the next level is more applications than it is a change in the infrastructure, seems to me, anyway. |
