Martyn Mallick
ISBN: 0-471-21419-1
Paper
480 pages
April 2003

While mobile and wireless consumer product growth has slowed down, technology development has not as economic ups and downs are inevitable. As of June 2001, Cahners In-Stat Group projects the market for wireless data technologies to grow from 170 million worldwide users in 2001 to 1.3 billion users in 2005. This market will access more than 1.5 billion phones, handhelds, and Internet appliances with wireless capabilities by the end of 2004. In fact, over 50% of all handhelds are projected to have wireless communications capabilities by 2004.