Opinions of 3G
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3G REPORT
Opinions of 3G
Herman Hauser, who co-founded Acorn Computers, is a director of Amadeus Capital
How important are 3G technologies going to be?
Very important for two reasons. First, 3G is the next generation of wireless voice technology. When we run out of spectrum for GSM, as we will in the not-too-distant future, 3G offers the solution and at 10% of the cost of GSM. Also, 3G provides substantial data bandwidth.
Has the poor showing of WAP dented enthusiasm for wireless technology?
No one with any understanding of the technology believed WAP would take off the way it was implemented. Trying to deliver data over a connection protocol was always going to be too slow. But as a packet network, using general packet radio service, it is a reasonable proposition.
Has wireless found its "killer application"?..