Varied players must make tough decisions to jumpstart wireless data.

RCR Wireless News, August, 2001 by DANO, MIKE

According to new reports from two major analyst firms, wireless data will be a huge business in the future, but not before software vendors, systems integrators and-especially--wireless carriers get in gear and make the tough decisions to take advantage of the situation. The mobile Internet access market is set to explode, with last year's 2.9 million active subscribers growing to a whopping 136 million by the end of 2007, according to Frost & Sullivan's "U.S.

Mobile Internet Access Market" report. These numbers translate into a jump in carrier revenues from $418 million last year to $26 billion six years from now. This growth will, unsurprisingly, be driven by the advent of advanced networks, the research firm said. The idea that faster transmission...

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