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The combination of a GSM mobile phone,
notebook PC and PC Card now allows traveling business
executives to keep in touch with colleagues, customers,
suppliers family or friends by voice, fax or email from
virtually anywhere they are likely to find themselves.
To meet growing customer demand, GSM operators around
the world are deploying new technologies to deliver higher
speed wireless access to corporate networks and the Internet.
GPRS brings the packet switching technique used by the
Internet to GSM. Ultimately promising data rates of up
to 115 kbps, GPRS has launched across many GSM markets
during 2001.
Beyond GPRS, GSM operators will also have the option to
deploy EDGE, a further technological upgrade that will
offer data rates of up to 384 kbps.
However, the most significant development on the horizon
will be the launch of "third generation" mobile phone
networks. Based on IMT2000, a family of technical standards
being developed under the auspices of the International
Telecommunications Union, third generation - or 3G - will
seamlessly integrate voice telephony and the Internet
on a single wireless network and offer data rates of 384
kbps to mobile users or 2 Mbps in low-mobility applications
such as in-building use.
3G has been launched in Japan during 2001 while 60 or
more operators are working towards introducing the new
technology to Western Europe from 2004. Licensing of 3G
operators is also progressing in central and eastern Europe,
Asia and the Americas.
The higher speeds and “always-connected” capabilities
of GPRS and third generation networks will stimulate a
host of new applications particularly in the field of
telemetry. With the potential to add GPRS or 3G modules
to virtually any piece of equipment, many advanced mobile
phone markets can realistically expect mobile phone penetration
to grow beyond one hundred percent of the population.
With mobile networks beginning to deploy new technologies
capable of pinpointing the location of users, wireless
Internet services will become much more closely tailored
to the needs of individuals on the move. The added value
of location-based services will make GPRS and 3G wireless
networks the preferred means of accessing the Internet,
following the example already set in Japan with i-mode.
This level of activity has prompted both Yankee Group
and Nokia to predict that of one billion mobile phone
users by 2003, 600 million will have some form of wireless
Internet access.
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