Is Wireless Finally Ready to Rule E-business? Part 5

While all of these figures are impressive, they pale in comparison to the worldwide usage of the wireless web with epicenters in Japan and Europe. According to Internet magazine of October 2nd, 2000 the number of worldwide wireless devices equipped with Internet access will reach 1.5 Billion with Japan and Europe providing the lion share of growth. The projected number of wireless messages sent a month according to Cahners In-Stat is estimated to be over a staggering 244 billion by December 2004!

All of this growth will be facilitated by great strides in the capability of the wireless media. Rich media technologies like Flash have already developed a wireless media player to stream animation and data content to wireless devices. A high speed broadband technology known as 3-G (for third generation wireless) will offer a fat pipe to wireless devices that exceeds today's cable and DSL speeds. 3-G should be widely available within the next few years