I picked this up off the Internet today from TipWorld under the heading
"Mobile Computing". Maybe wireless email isn't too far down the road
(oops - channel!).
Patrick
WILLARD 40PH
,,`,,
ALOHA
There's a lot of talk about (and pining for) wireless
broadband these days. No wonder, when you consider that
wireless Internet users top out at about 28.8 kilobits per
second, if they're lucky. Sprint is currently testing 1 to
5 megabits per second download-speed wireless broadband
services in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. However, the
service is for home use: A stationary receiver picks up
signals from a transmission tower. But don't fret:
Metricom, provider of the wireless service Richochet, last
summer rolled out 128-kbps wireless access service in San
Diego and Atlanta, with a launch in 19 other markets under
way. Research firm IDC predicts wireless broadband will be
a $61.5 million business by 2003.
I picked this up off the Internet today from TipWorld under the heading
"Mobile Computing". Maybe wireless email isn't too far down the road
(oops - channel!).
Patrick
WILLARD 40PH
,,`,,
ALOHA
There's a lot of talk about (and pining for) wireless
broadband these days. No wonder, when you consider that
wireless Internet users top out at about 28.8 kilobits per
second, if they're lucky. Sprint is currently testing 1 to
5 megabits per second download-speed wireless broadband
services in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. However, the
service is for home use: A stationary receiver picks up
signals from a transmission tower. But don't fret:
Metricom, provider of the wireless service Richochet, last
summer rolled out 128-kbps wireless access service in San
Diego and Atlanta, with a launch in 19 other markets under
way. Research firm IDC predicts wireless broadband will be
a $61.5 million business by 2003.
