By providing a low-cost, high-quality phone service – with the freedom of mobility thrown in – PCS vendors will gouge the revenues of local phone companies. Your home phone and mobile phone will be one and the same. Once again, technology will have destroyed a monopoly where legislation failed.
Predictor: Steinberg, Steve G.
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article listing tech items and issues that are currently being hyped, Steve Steinberg of Wired magazine writes: ”Although a lot of hype has surrounded PCS’s imminent descent upon the cellular market, scant attention has been paid to its invasion of the local loop. Yet it’s the latter action that will most affect the telecom market. By providing a low-cost, high-quality phone service – with the freedom of mobility thrown in – PCS vendors will gouge the revenues of local phone companies. Your home phone and mobile phone will be one and the same. Once again, technology will have destroyed a monopoly where legislation failed.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Wireless Technologies
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Hype List: PCS versus Cellular
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.04/hypelist.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney