What does wireless do for the Internet? There are several things that it does immediately: Access expansion – Providing access to places not readily served. This would include, for example, school classrooms and other locations not now served by wire-based telephone. Expanded bandwidth – Using wireless, it may be possible to take 20 to 40 MHz of bandwidth and create and 40 to 80 MBPs bus to allow PDA users to access to a wide variety of services, including multimedia. Terminal identification – Wireless has an infrastructure that will enable the “Find Me!” paradigm to be effected. It has more than the cellular roaming capabilities that we have seen evolve in the older analog cellular architecture.
Predictor: McGarty, Terrence P.
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Internet Architectural and Policy Implications for Migration from High-End User to the ‘New User'” by Terrence P. McGarty and Carole Haywood. McGarty is chairman and CEO of The Telemarc Group, Inc. and Haywood is with RAM Mobile Data Inc. They write: ”What does wireless do for the Internet? There are several things that it does immediately: Access expansion – Providing access to places not readily served. This would include, for example, school classrooms and other locations not now served by wire-based telephone. Expanded bandwidth – Using wireless, it may be possible to take 20 to 40 MHz of bandwidth and create and 40 to 80 MBPs bus to allow PDA users to access to a wide variety of services, including multimedia. Terminal identification – Wireless has an infrastructure that will enable the ‘Find Me!’ paradigm to be effected. It has more than the cellular roaming capabilities that we have seen evolve in the older analog cellular architecture.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Wireless Technologies
Name of publication: Public Access to the Internet (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Internet Architectural and Policy Implications for Migration from High-End User to the ‘New User’
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 256
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne