Wireless Data Communications: Severing the Ties that Bind
In the past 10 years, wireless technologies have had a profound effect on the communications industry.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the homes of consumers. Initially, the Internet-savvy public was satisfied with surfing the information superhighway through a sluggish dial-up connection. Those dial-up lines were then replaced with DSL and high-speed cable connections. More recently, wireless networks and cellular network cards have become the standard.
Speed. Reliability. Portability. These are the buzzwords that describe what consumers demand, and they are repeated often in television commercials and marketing materials for many of the communications providers worldwide.
A similar conversion is taking place in the turbulent world of self-service, where ATMs and other self-service devices allow consumers to conduct financial transactions outside the branch. Deployers of ATMs are discovering the advantages of integrating their deployments onto wireless networks as opposed to using traditional landlines.
Why now? What drives the conversion from wired to wireless? And why is the conversion occurring rapidly in some areas but more slowly in others? To answer those questions, it helps to divide the world into emerging markets and established markets.
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