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From:http://www.isir.com/wireless/
Market Potential for Wireless Internet Access
- Market research firm Dataquest predicts that revenues for wireless data services will grow from $460 million in 1999 to $3 billion in 2003.
- Cisco Systems and Motorola recently announced an alliance to develop global, Internet-based wireless networks. The two companies plan to invest $1 billion over the next four or five years to implement the project.
- 3Com recently acquired Smartcode Technologie, a French developer of wireless data communications and Internet-access software. 3Com expects to deliver wireless Web access in its upcoming 3Com Palm VII.
- Nextel Communications has joined with Motorola, Netscape, and Unwired Planet to form the Nextel Online family of wireless Internet services. Scheduled for launch in six cities later this year, a wireless Internet portal called Nextel Online will include stock quotes, weather, business headlines, and Nextel's Internet-based services.
- Microsoft is also jockeying for position in the wireless business, through a new venture with British Telecom to develop a range of Internet, intranet, and corporate data services for worldwide mobile customers. And a joint venture between General Magic and Wireless Knowledge (a new company partly owned by Microsoft and Qualcomm) will bring secure wireless access to Microsoft Exchange and mobile devices accessing the Internet.
- Sierra Wireless and its partners AT&T Wireless Services, Bell Atlantic Mobile, GoAmerica, Hewlett-Packard, Pinacor, River Run Software Group, and Sharp Electronics recently announced new hardware, software, and service bundles that include the Sierra AirCard 300--a wireless modem designed for Windows CE devices such as the HP Jornada and the Sharp Mobilon Pro.
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