Is Wireless Finally Ready to Rule E-business? Part 3

download times. 56k modems are slowly giving way to broadband access. Therefore many Internet users will not be willing to make a backward devolution to slow wireless speeds of only 19k. 19k is less than half the speed of 56k modem speeds of which most Internet users are already unhappy.

Furthermore, wireless is a mishmash of network standards and protocols like GSM, TDMA, WAP, and CDMA. Concurrently it is a hodgepodge of markup languages like CHTML, HDML, HTML, VoiceXML, WML, and XML. In other words these technologies do not work together and they are competing for wireless primacy. Compounding this is the different devices like cell phones, PDAs, two way pagers, and pocketPCs. Not to mention different operating systems and platforms making it very hard for developers to transition web sites or intranets into new formats to accommodate wireless access. Lastly there is the looming question of whether people will be able to