just wondering answer as soon as possible.
2006-09-13 04:55:47 · 2 answers · asked by DeeVA 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Hi there! I work in the Telecommunications industry - especially with handhelds, portables, PDAs and cellphones.
What the carriers do not want the public to catch on to is the real future of telecommunications. Very soon everything will radically change, and several large carriers will probably go under being unable to regain any market share.
What is happening is that many of the current land, air and satellite systems are being converted to pure digital internet based system, and VoIP is taking a large precidence in this. Couple this with extremely strong WiFi, WiMAX and similar wireless broadband rollouts all across the world - with the Asian countries being almost complete, Europe take second seat - and the US will probably not be there for 10 more years - as usual.
When the infrastructure is firmly entrenched, there will be a firestorm of WiFi based handsets being released. You can even purchase them now - they are calling themselves either Skype phones or WiFi VoIP phones - and some are generic enough to use any of 3 to 5 different VoIP carriers on a single phone.
With the advent of the WiFi phone system, where totally free calls are made to anywhere in the world, and where internet access if full and not blocked, the cellphone industry will crumble practically overnight. All of the money they have spent purchasing bandwidth and designing phones and vying for market share will mean nothing. With the advent of the totally free and completely open access, there will be zero need for the cellphone industry anymore.
Only those few companies who have seen the writing on the wall and are working with WiFi based phones and open internet access phones have any bare chance of survival. In the meantime, they lobby hard in the US to try to get laws enacted to make VoIP illegal, or tax it heavily just so it is not free anymore so they can still stay in business.
If the US does not embrace this, the US will of course fall behind every other country in the world - just like it does today with its closed development practices and horrible business competition practices.
But in the end people will just ingore the cell companies and buy whatever they want to buy. The will do what they want to do. And eventually someone will change any laws that hinder VoIP and make it open access once again. Of course by that time, the rest of the world will be using Impulse communications technology, which allows them to communicate with anyone on the planet just by tuning a special tuner into their quantumn address on their set. And the US will once again be 10 to 20 years behind the rest of the world.
Look to Asia being the leaders in how telecommuncations will develop, look to Europe for advanced changes to come, and look to India and other developing nations to see where the US developers are focusing on, since they outsource heavily in those countries for development and the outcome is that those countries incorporate what they are outsourcing into their internal infrastructures.
2006-09-13 05:08:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-13 05:00:40 · answer #2 · answered by verony 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋