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To: Ruffian who wrote (43834)	10/8/1999 5:54:00 PM
From: Rick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

The October 9th issue of the Economist has a massive 36 page study of the telecommunications industry, centering on mobile phones. "The growth in the number of mobile phone subscribers is nothing short of spectacular. In 1990 there were just over 11M of them worldwide. Today there are almost 400m, against only 180M with personal computers. By 2004, the number is likely to hit one billion, exceeding the number of wired phones. ...Colly Myers, the head of Symbian, a wireless consortium, predicts that the current Internet gold rush will be dwarfed by what is about to happen with wireless Internet access. About 90 companies, ranging from the biggest equipment manufactures to Microsoft, have joined the WAP (Wireless Applications Protocol) Forum in order to develop a common protocol that allows users to gain access to the World Wide Web without typing fiddly letters. The Forum predicts that by 2003 as many as 525M of the WAP handsets that are just beginning to appear on the market may have been sold in the United States and Western Europe. " Fred