Telecom Execs Talk Wi-Fi
Here's a roundup of what telecom execs have to say about the most pressing issues related to Wi-Fi
For more than two years now, the telecommunications industry has been stuck in financial quicksand. You know the story: Amid a global economic funk, telecom carriers have seen revenues and profits decline. So they've put the pinch on capital expenditures. Spending on telecom gear should decline 7.8% in 2003, to $128.9 billion, according to JP Morgan Securities.
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Nicholas M. Labun, Motorola vice-president for wireless network seamless mobility [Motorola in partnership with Avaya (AV ) will unveil a WiFi phone by the middle of 2004.]: We're developing a dual-mode phone that will work off the Wi-Fi network while inside an enterprise, and then sniff out a cellular network when the phone is outside of the office. Inside the office it becomes more like your desk phone, a sophisticated desk phone that has access to all the directories and files from your PC network. If you walk outside the enterprise, then the phone hands off to a cellular network.
When it's outside the enterprise, this thing still can connect to mission-critical data. This will create a whole new market category. We think it will change the way an enterprise functions. There is a growth opportunity, but it's at the stage where it has to prove itself in the market.
Here's a roundup of what telecom execs have to say about the most pressing issues related to Wi-Fi
For more than two years now, the telecommunications industry has been stuck in financial quicksand. You know the story: Amid a global economic funk, telecom carriers have seen revenues and profits decline. So they've put the pinch on capital expenditures. Spending on telecom gear should decline 7.8% in 2003, to $128.9 billion, according to JP Morgan Securities.
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Nicholas M. Labun, Motorola vice-president for wireless network seamless mobility [Motorola in partnership with Avaya (AV ) will unveil a WiFi phone by the middle of 2004.]: We're developing a dual-mode phone that will work off the Wi-Fi network while inside an enterprise, and then sniff out a cellular network when the phone is outside of the office. Inside the office it becomes more like your desk phone, a sophisticated desk phone that has access to all the directories and files from your PC network. If you walk outside the enterprise, then the phone hands off to a cellular network.
When it's outside the enterprise, this thing still can connect to mission-critical data. This will create a whole new market category. We think it will change the way an enterprise functions. There is a growth opportunity, but it's at the stage where it has to prove itself in the market.
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