Mobile Infrastructure
The mobile Internet promises interesting, easy-to-use, high-performance services that pull in new subscribers while making lots of money for mobile operators. Most of the news in the past year has focused on new mobile PDAs and handsets, corporate applications, and spectrum licenses, but in moving to a data-optimized network from a system that was built for voice, mobile operators and their network engineers will also have to deal with a whole new set of infrastructure technologies.
Granted, infrastructure isn’t as sexy as a new Stinger phone, but none of the new phones will be worth anything unless wireless carriers make the right infrastructure choices. In the end, it’s the infrastructure that delivers the services and the revenue.
