E-Business

Issue No. 2 - September/October 2001

mNet Set to Wire up the City

We’ve all been surprised by the astonishing uptake of the internet. Host computers are added at a rate of nearly 460 each and every hour, while the number of internet users grows by more than 2100 each hour [reference www.netsizer.com]. Newspaper and television adds together with bus shelters are often now adorned with a URL or web address of the company, product or service. But we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg.

Today mobile phones far outnumber computers on the internet, both in number and in growth. In fact there’s about 700,000,000 mobile phones in use today. That’s a mobile phone for every nine people on the planet!

Today’s internet is a mainly tethered network, with users ‘plugged in’ either by dial—up line or direct connected, but all that’s about to change. Soon it we will have high bandwidth connections available to handheld devices over a wide area. Now not everyone will want to watch video on their phone, indeed the applications and...

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