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Solving the Wireless Infrastructure Dilemma It is a delicious irony. C-level executives and other BusinessWeek readers are hungry to use wireless devices. They crave the ability to read and write e-mail, review memos, share spreadsheets and critique PowerPoint slides from wherever they are. Yet they get indigestion when thinking about the incremental costs and management issues that accompany widespread use of laptops, PDAs, smartphones and other devices. Recent research by BusinessWeek Research Services (BWRS), In-Stat, Frost & Sullivan and others reflects the dichotomy. Last year, a BWRS survey found that 76 percent of the C-level execs from large and midsize companies were using a PDA for telephone, appointment and/or e-mail functionality. Furthermore, they predicted that a large proportion of their direct reports would be using such devices by 2007. Yet only half of the execs had a formal policy in place to manage PDA/smartphone procurement, e-mail and server access. That's a huge opportunity for vendors of a variety of switches, routers, carrier services, and systems and network management software as well as the purveyors of the portable devices themselves. In addition, providers of security solutions and enterprise applications have a challenge and opportunity in this market. Indeed, In-Stat's research late last year found that while most wireless data access was occurring via a laptop using a Wi-Fi access point (see the chart), there is a growing number of cellular device users. In-Stat predicts that while there are 100 million cell phones worldwide using the 3G networks now, by 2010 the number of users will increase eight-fold, to 816 million.
Source: In-Stat 10/05 In the United States, the rise of mobile workers dependent on wireless access to corporate systems will be stunning. Frost & Sullivan predicts that by 2010, the number of mobile U.S. workers will exceed 70 million and that half of them will be dependent on wireless data access. Since it estimates roughly 17.5 million mobile data users now, that means the market will essentially double in four years.
Source: Frost & Sullivan Inc. These and other data points are part of our current research for our upcoming special ad section in BusinessWeek, "Infrastructures Embrace Wireless." If you are interested in participating in this project, please contact me right away to set up an interview. Either call me at 617-244-0698 or e-mail me. Also note that we are preparing BWRS-branded research reports and white papers on this and other topics, so let me know if these opportunities would be of interest to you. Legal Stuff For prior issues of my newsletters with research data and analysis, visit this page of our Web site. If you want to be removed from my e-mail distribution list, please reply to this e-mail with the word Remove in the subject line. Thanks again for your interest and support.
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