The appropriate group to set the agenda and baseline definitions for communications is ITU, not TIA or the standards, regulatory/government, or trade groups of individual countries or groups.
While wireless is pivotal to the converged vision of ITC or 'personal broadband everywhere', it is becoming less relevant over time to define evolution of technology in terms of generations of wireless infrastructure or devices. That's somewhat analogous to what happened when the Internet made use of wired/fiber networking to connect locations over common protocols: the emphasis on computing necessarily changed and each step in processing power, local storage and other factors that drove the 'PC revolution' became less important. The evolution of wireless technologies and architectures is occurring rapidly and encourages innovation as consumer electronics, computing, and Internet/media are enabled to become cloud based and immediate. However, the importance of generational staging of the technology is muted by the universal nature of IP.
The impact of wireless, Internet and computing is now based more on software that resides on devices and in the cloud, on bandwidth and low latency which cross the variety of transport media, and on using the combination in more effective, thought multiplying, and entertaining ways.
The battle for markets goes on no matter what and sometimes contrary to what seems to make sense to those better informed. Que sera, sera. |
