Chapter 1. The Wireless World

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The Internet is going through a revolution.For its first thirty years, it remained a network of large computers tied together by cables.Now that is changing.Wireless technologies promise to set surfers free.Internet users will be able to access any information they want to access, anytime and anywhere.

The revolution cuts both ways: wireless technology itself is also changing.Though radio dates from the nineteenth century, only in the twenty-first century will its true potential be reached.Digitization and Internet protocols will let it carry greater amounts of data, all personalized for individual users.Instead of poor-quality ...

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