NEW YANKEE GROUP REPORT EXAMINES FUTURE OF WIRELESS INDUSTRY ARCHITECTURES.Sometime in 2002, you could hear this advertisement: "Welcome to the new wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. industry, replete re·plete adj. 1. Abundantly supplied; abounding: a stream replete with trout; an apartment replete with Empire furniture. 2. Filled to satiation; gorged. 3. with next-generation wireless, Internet, and high-speed broadband services See broadband and broadband service provider. . . . ." While market pundits have been discussing the brave new world Brave New World Aldous Huxley’s grim picture of the future, where scientific and social developments have turned life into a tragic travesty. [Br. Lit.: Magill I, 79] See : Dystopia Brave New World of wireless for several years, they have just recently begun to focus on the need for new wireless billing solutions that will support the myriad new services and applications. A new Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. Report, "The Shifting Wireless Billing Environment," examines some of the key issues involved in moving the wireless industry from today's first- and second-generation network architectures into the future, and states the Yankee Group's belief that billing solutions may have a significant impact on whether this occurs. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. David Berndt, director of the Yankee Group's Wireless/Mobile Technologies research and consulting practice, "Today's wireless billing platforms focus on circuit-switched traffic. Operators must now implement solutions that will support packet-based traffic. And beyond this, they may need even more sophisticated platforms that are `aware' of the value of the packet-based traffic and can bill the customer accordingly." The Yankee Group expects continued investment in wireless billing systems (in the form of proprietary system upgrades and customized development services from system integrators that may or may not include third-party software). |
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