With the exponential growth of mobile internet use, service providers are looking to the future for answers to their mobile traffic problems. With roughly 500,000 million people now using the 3G network and with those numbers on the rise, a faster form of data transfer is greatly in need.
The '4G' network is said to deliver up to 500 times the speed of most broadband services today.
How will this affect the cellphone and recycling industries?
1. There will be many old phones left in the dust for newer models capable of handling the 4G speeds... i.e. where do the current billion or so phones end up? There will be major growth in cellphone recycling in the next 5 years.
2. Competition will push the cellphone manufactures into hyperspeed and apps for mobile devices will reach their acme.
3. Wireless will completely replace fixed link.
"Wireless internet access is going to be a better, richer experience than fixed link access." said Professor Michael Walker, group R&D director at Vodafone told Wireless 2.0 conference in Bristol, organised by Silicon South-West.
The age of wireless is upon us, be prepared to recycle your old devices and embrace the future.
For more info check out this blog 3G4G and a recent NYT article.
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