What's next? Mindset change: it's time to get away from the traditional idea of "either/or"--as in 3G or WiMAX--and evolve to a mindset that involves the bundling of wide area, metro area and local area networks. That will give users the most optimal network experience.(Mobile Mindset)

Wireless Week, July, 2005 by Lowenstein, Mark

The roadmap for wireless networks over the next two to three years is quite clear. By mid-2007, we should have three widely available 3G networks in the United States (Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless and Sprint-Nextel). T-Mobile USA, the wildcard among the national operators, either will have been consolidated into the Big Three or acquired by another entity intent on deploying some next-generation network--either along the 3GPP path or some WANWLAN combo. CDMA 1X EV-DO or UMTS (HSDPA) is what enterprise decision makers will have available to them over the WAN for the foreseeable future.

But what's next? As we look toward to the latter part of this decade, the discussion becomes a little more interesting. There will always be a thirst for more...

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