The other big global player in sending mobile data through Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) is Vodafone-Airtouch, which just joined with Mannesmann in the world's biggest-ever merger.
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Still, she characterized the technology as an "interim solution" to providing mobile users with wireless Web access.
He said Dell's customers are telling the company they prefer the idea of mobile Internet access via wireless notebook computers, using technology such as the Bluetooth and 802.11 standards as well as emerging wireless telecommunications technology such as GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), wideband CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System).
Third generation mobile phones will allow users wireless access to the internet.
You could also have a 57 customized just like a 62, with electronics options that would allow a laptop hookup to a flat plasma screen, a wireless keyboard and mobile Internet access.
Its goal is to create a variety of wireless mobile devices that will give people constant access to the Web, wherever they are.
The new firm, to be called T-Mobile, will have access to more precious wireless spectrum and can streamline investment in a superfast 4G network.
Likewise Seagate has greatly improved their personal mobile wireless device, now called the Wireless Plus with up to 1 TB of storage capacity, WiFi access and reported 10 hour battery life.
Seybold is still bullish on the long-term prospects of Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ), which has made progress penetrating the European mobile phone market with its code division multiple access wireless technology.
And just a few years hence, wireless interactive access devices, such as smart mobile telephones and handheld computers, are expected to offer easy Internet access on the move.
With WAP (wireless access protocol) technology making the Internet accessible over mobile phones throughout the region, network operators are scrambling to roll out new applications, and games some in downloadable versions, some designed to be played over the Net are among the hottest.
First, there's the wireless Internet access with Telecom Italia, which has 3 million mobile phone customers in Brazil.
Sprint Data Link provides mobile employees and connected devices with access to their mission-critical business information over a private wireless network, separate from the public Internet.
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Reportedly, the FCC has warned Sprint that it "could lose access to the signal spectrum used by its Nextel- and Boost Mobile-branded wireless services" if it doesn't remedy the problem by June of 2008.
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Both wireless carriers and mobile subscribers currently are saddled with data caps: price plans limiting the amount of data customers can access depending on their payment plan.
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