Wireless Communications

According to Alpert B. (1998), the new technology that allows people to carry their home offices with them is wireless. Wireless technology now allows investors to keep in constant contact with their investments, whether by cellular phone, pager, laptop computer or Palm Pilot. Brokers are getting into the act, too, with Fidelity Investments offering customers wireless transmissions of research, market data, and stock trades. One outfit that made a big splash by beaming free stock-market data to pagers, which sends an alert if any stock in your portfolio has fallen, say, 30%. If an investor cannot wait until the end of the trading day, there are services that send alerts during the trading day. All of the investment data can also be received by smart cellular phones, meaning the ones that have small data screens. Other wireless options

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Wide product selection - QUALCOMM has licensed CDMA technology to over 75 leading communications manufacturers worldwide, enabling service providers and customers to choose from a wide range of highly advanced, cost-competitive, CDMA-based products. AT&T plans to add services for the latest Ericsson cell phone and the Palm 5 personal digital assistant this summer. QUALCOMM's CDMA variable rate vocoder translates voice into digital transmissions. For instance, mobile field service personnel and sales representatives will want to use cell phones to access customer information, check inventory availability, monitor problems, and track order status as they move from customer to customer (Davis, 2000, p. Satellite-based wireless communication is going to change the way we traditionally communicated and open a new communication era for the coming century.

Laser transmission: Laser technology is similar to infrared technology in that it requires a direct line of sight, and any person or thing that breaks the laser beam will block the transmission. Technology providers will find huge opportunity over the next three years in the rapidly growing business market. If Ericsson can get its mobile-handset business back on track, it should benefit big-time from wireless buzz. It has stretched the boundaries of the local area network.

Spread-spectrum radio transmission: Spread-spectrum radio broadcast signals over a range of frequencies. With such immense demands, the industry intensively develops wireless technology to implement in the Internet and business applications (Bob, 2000).

Definition of Key Terms

In general there are three key terms for this report. In Europe, wireless technology is primarily consumer-driven.

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