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them to deploy higher speed services using the same
equipment. This approach is expected to provide a much lower cost of operation going forward.
It's easy to imagine the advantages to business
people, what, if any, are the advantages to the consumer/end user?
The end user benefits in a number of ways. First are the new applications. Using Internet technologies like publish
and subscribe, push etc. a whole new set of services are facilitated. Examples of the types of services are universal
messaging (voice and email), location-based services etc. This approach allows wireless service providers to open
up their networks to hundreds and thousands of content and application providers much like the Internet.
Finally, there are lots of different standards for cellular communication. This provides the
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ability to ensure that the data networking and applications operate transparently across all of the standards.
Imagine propagating the dual and trimodal phone model into the data networking area - it would impede the development
of new services and the use of services.
What sort of products do you foresee? Hardware,
software or???
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