Chapter 6. Mobile Data Services
In this chapter…
The most extravagant claims for wireless technology surround mobile data. If the cellphone vendors are to be believed, we will soon be able to watch high-definition TV streamed live to a pocket-sized panel, while surfing the Web and participating in a videoconference. Nokia and Ericsson have both committed themselves to making every new cellphone Internet-enabled, from 2002 onwards.
This mobile Internet is a long way from the cyberspace that surfers know and love. Data rates are still painfully slow, and the first wireless Web technologies are aimed at reducing the features of sites rather than increasing the data rate. Amidst the hype, it's ...
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