What If?
Monday, October 06, 2008 - Andrew Seybold
There are a lot of "what ifs" on my mind these days and I thought I'd share a few with you so you can ponder them as well. They run the gamut from public safety, to shared networks, to devices, and applications. Let's start with this: The people who are turning up WiMAX and the people who are planning to roll out LTE seem to believe that the Internet delivered wirelessly to devices bigger than a phone and smaller than a laptop computer will be the wave of the future.
What if they are wrong and the REAL wireless Internet looks very different? What if what people want is a smarter wireless Internet that interacts with them in different ways where searches and surfing websites are only secondary functions. What if the real wireless Internet is filled with smart devices, smart software, and smart back-ends that know what is next on our schedule and provide information we need without any intervention on our part-checking a flight, providing weather in the destination city, and watching the route to the airport for traffic problems, and adjusting the time to leave for the airport to make the flight. ...
Monday, October 06, 2008 - Andrew Seybold
There are a lot of "what ifs" on my mind these days and I thought I'd share a few with you so you can ponder them as well. They run the gamut from public safety, to shared networks, to devices, and applications. Let's start with this: The people who are turning up WiMAX and the people who are planning to roll out LTE seem to believe that the Internet delivered wirelessly to devices bigger than a phone and smaller than a laptop computer will be the wave of the future.
What if they are wrong and the REAL wireless Internet looks very different? What if what people want is a smarter wireless Internet that interacts with them in different ways where searches and surfing websites are only secondary functions. What if the real wireless Internet is filled with smart devices, smart software, and smart back-ends that know what is next on our schedule and provide information we need without any intervention on our part-checking a flight, providing weather in the destination city, and watching the route to the airport for traffic problems, and adjusting the time to leave for the airport to make the flight. ...
...What if the CTIA put together a pre-D Block auction group to work with the Public Safety Spectrum Trust (PSST) to exchange ideas and craft some first steps for using today's 3G networks and interfacing them with the existing public safety networks? What if these two groups could come together and agree on what is needed and what is possible, and make recommendations to the FCC? ...
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