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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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<span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;
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signal"
src="cid:part4.03030008.03050901@oplin.org"
alt="" height="125" width="120">While wired
Internet broadband capacity and usage keeps
relentlessly increasing, the truly interesting
action is happening in wireless Internet.
Technology companies are not devoting a great deal
of effort to doing innovative stuff with cable
modems; they're working on innovative stuff for
mobile devices. Even as wireless carriers compete
fiercely to get us to use their brand-new 4G
cellular wireless networks, work is already
starting on 5G cellular. It looks like this next
generation of wireless technology could drive a
change in the way we use the Internet in our daily
lives, with the expansion of the so-called
Internet of Things (IoT) and new developments in
machine-to-machine (M2M) networking.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19871065">5G
research centre gets major funding grant</a>
(BBC News) "Prof Rahim Tafozolli said work had
already begun. 'The boundaries between mobile
communication and the internet are blurring, so
the fifth generation is internet on the move,'
he told the BBC. Prof Tafozolli, professor of
mobile wireless communications and the director
of Surrey University's Centre for Communications
Systems Research, said: '4G for us is old hat.
We started working on 4G 10 years ago.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/08/technology/5G-wireless/index.htm">Start
thinking about 5G wireless</a> (CNNMoney/David
Goldman) "Each generation of network technology
has enabled a new set of features: 2G was about
voice, 3G was about data and 4G is about video.
5G, [Bell Labs' Tod] Sizer predicts, will be
about intelligent networks that can handle
billions of connected devices while remaining
stable and operational. That will be tricky if
the future proves as connected as industry
leaders forecast."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.wfs.org/blogs/thomas-frey/empowering-%E2%80%9Cthings%E2%80%9D-for-our-internet-things">Empowering
"things" for our Internet of Things</a> (World
Future Society/Thomas Frey) "Our mushrooming
'Internet of Things' is growing exponentially,
and estimates of its progression vary
tremendously. GSMA [GSM Association] estimates
connecting 24 billion devices by 2020, while
Cisco and Ericsson think we will hit 50 billion.
Depending on a few key breakthroughs, these
estimates may all be on low end, and here's why.
Telecom carriers are primarily concerned about
devices that connect directly to the Internet,
but a rapidly growing category of peripheral
devices are designed to connect indirectly
through smartphones, home or office Wi-Fi, or
other smart devices."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/M2M-technology-ushers-in-the-age-of-total-connection">M2M
technology ushers in the age of total
connection</a> (ComputerWeekly/Kathleen Hall)
"One issue for the deployment of M2M is the lack
of seamless connectivity for wireless and patchy
3G coverage. The GSMA says spectrum will be
crucial in achieving a more networked economy,
supported by a sufficiently flexible regulatory
environment in the telecoms sector and in other
industries. In the next four years the mobile
industry will invest $793bn in expanding the
coverage and capabilities of mobile networks,
according to GSMA."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Historic
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Arguably
the first smartphone was the <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUG7nwMmoUc">IBM
Simon</a>, which was distributed by BellSouth
from late 1994 to early 1995. It offered users a
calendar, address book, calculator, email, fax
services, and games. It cost $899 with a two-year
contract.
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