Mobile Computing and Wireless Systems

SEMINAR 11

Mobile Computing and Wireless Systems

Introduction

The wireless data market

Frost & Sullivan: Market growth of 10 times between 1996 and 2003 ($2.5Billion by 2002)
Yankee group: More than 1 Million wireless Intelligent Terminals will be sold in 2000 = 4% of total wireless terminals sold
Strategis: Two Million wireless data subscribers in 1997 - Market growth at an average rate of 40% through to 2002
Ovum: Growth from 300,000 to 3 Million users of data over GSM in western Europe and 90,000 to 900,000 in the UK between 1997 and the end of 2000.

Some Wireless data Applications