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One billion mobile data connections by 2013
THE NUMBER of mobile devices accessing the Internet is expected to pass the one billion mark by 2013, according to analyst outfit IDC.
With just about every device able to connect to the Internet these days, IDC reckons there are now around 450 million mobile Internet users worldwide, and it expects this number to continue to soar as the world plus dog connects to the world wide web with their mobile phone, netbook, toaster and so on.
"The number of mobile devices with Internet access has simply exploded over the last several years," said John Gantz, chief research officer at IDC.
"With a wealth of information and services available from almost anywhere, Internet-connected mobile devices are reshaping the way we go about our personal and professional lives. With an explosion in applications for mobile devices underway, the next several years will witness another sea change in the way users interact with the Internet and further blur the lines between personal and professional."
As it stands, according to Gantz, the user to device ratio is about one to one, with about 1.6 billion users around the globe accessing the Internet in some way, shape or form in 2009. Similarly, around 1.6 billion devices, including PCs, mobile phones, and online videogame consoles, are used to access the Internet.
The report predicts that by 2013 around 2.7 billion people will be accessing the Internet from 2.7 billion different devices.
Despite the smaller screen and slower connection, we're apparently using the Internet much the same way while we're out and about as we do at a desk, namely using search engines, reading news and sports information, downloading music and videos, and sending and receiving emails and instant messages.
IDC reckons that between now and 2013 we'll increasingly be using the mobile web for online shopping, creating blogs and accessing online business applications and corporate email systems.
This sounds a lot like what we're using it for today, but perhaps we're just the exception. µ
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that's great but old network infrastructures need to be upgraded to handle 1 billion connections. Otherwise users will have an iPhone like phone with ATT like service...
This means O2 might have to bring in the second channel on their back bone and bring it up to 128k ISDN.
They won't like having to do that!
future vision moment? not having my network access fail when i'm half-way thr
how since the end is 2012?
Mine:
My HTC phone will be able to unlock my front door, set my alarm system, display my home cctv, switch lights on as I walk between rooms, remind me that my favourite tv show is about to start and give me the options to sky+ it, select a dinner from the ingredients basket in my fridge and put it into my auto-cooker, start my car and pre-load my spoken destination into the auto-drive sat-nav, switched the heated seat on and warmed up the pillow on my auto-recline driving seat-bed....
I can see one device, what we currently call a mobile phone, being the main device. Our inter-communicator. An object that we use to communicate with all others.
Or we simply have voice software with encryption that we use to access all devices.
"Put some water in yourself and make me some tea, kettle."
"I want some bubbles, medium warm and medium full please bath."
"The blue shirt, black trousers, I'd like them ironed please iron."
"Alarm clock, check my meetings and make sure you set yourself so I can be at the first one on time, allow for traffic so you better also check the planned roadworks and traffic forecast sites. Oh yes, I also want some cereal and juice for breakfast, if we are out please order some to be delivered to fridge by tomorrow morning."
Is that a reasonable future vision? Can that happen? What do you see?