Eduardo Conrado

A switch is normally a hard thing, on or off, but today's switches are increasingly taking a soft approach. Wireless penetration, already strong with more than 1.2 billion subscribers, is expected to increase 61% to 1.7 billion subscribers by 2006, according to Motorola research. Wireless usage is displacing wireline at a rate that will soon make wireless the dominant medium for worldwide communication. In conjunction with this rapid growth, a vast number of communication options have become available to end users, including e-mail, Short Message Service (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), and Push-To-Talk (PTT). For operators, this translates into significant growth in the global subscriber base and demand for both wireless voice and data services that will, in turn, provide the opportunity for greater revenue and greater market share. In addition, operators... (more)