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The Need for High Speed Mobile Data:

Why High Speed Mobile Data?

The ever increasing growth rate of data applications such as e-mail and the internet is confronting mobile network operators worldwide with the challenge to upgrade their networks to high bandwidth capable "bit pipes" in order to provide for all kinds of mobile data applications. High speed mobile data will combine two of today's most rapidly growing technologies, mobility and the internet.
Let us compare the situation on the mobile side with the progress that has been made on the fixed end. While even today's analog modems operate at 56 kbit/s and, indeed, ISDN transmits up to 128 kbit/s, mobile users are still limited to 9.6 kbit/s in of GSM. The rollout of XDSL improves the situation even further on the wireline side, thereby broadening the gap between wireline and wireless.