Improved mobile internet speeds
I have been a user of HSDPA/3.5g services for a while now and its interesting to see how my life have changed during this time. Previously, I was chained to a desk in order to access the internet to do anything however, nowadays, I could be on the taxi to the airport, I can reply emails, check the progress of my team on the collaboration platform and talk to colleagues on IMs. After I land at the other airport, I can check my mail on my mobile and catch a quick quiet moment to think about stuff. This is revolutionary without 3g services, half my traveling time will be wasted doing next to nothing.
However, what I found was that speeds are maybe rather decent nowadays but there is still alot of room to grow in this space. Theoretical speeds are well marketed but the real speeds that users could achieve are still lower as compared to broadband speeds.
What I foresee in the future is that mobile internet speeds will increase and will be more stable for everyday, all day usage. This is quite expected by most people and its just a matter of time we get there. However, what challenges will this pose and what doors will it open?
One of the technical challenges this will pose is to deliver high quality, low cost corporate applications on to mobile phones with the right level of security wrapping the service. There isn’t a real standard for delivering such services at the moment and it will be a while before we can see this happening. Secondly, content of all sorts can be delivered via the web to the mobile but processing power on mobiles needs to be able to cope with the increase in content and speeds. Thirdly, typing on mobile phones is something that is not very easy and for it to become mainstream work platform, more advance user interface needs to be developed to improve the capability of employees using this on the road.
This will open a lot of doors to the business world. Areas like location based advertising, integrated public transport / movie ticket purchasing system, integrated credit card system, corporate applications on the go, low cost/free international calls via VOIP on mobiles and so much more. This is an interesting and fast changing development in the internet/telecommunication market that will be somewhat life changing. Can’t wait to see it unfold.
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