Posted on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Mobile Internet is Taking Off
Financial Times
Over the next four years, the world’s telecommunications groups will begin to deploy 4G wireless broadband services, ushering in what some have described as the mobile Internet.
So far, WiMax seems to be leading the race, with real products coming on to the market now and big deployments under way, including the $14.5bn Clearwire consortium in the US, backed by Clearwire, Sprint Nextel, Intel, Google and three of the largest US cable TV networks.
A recent survey conducted by market research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey among 114 IT decision makers working for companies with at least 1,000 employees, reported that nearly half of all enterprises currently use 3G cellular services, and that more than one-third plan on using WiMax technology within the next year.
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