Heaven forbid that the media - and yes that includes us - are guilty of over hyping technology.
And it's the job of technology firms to give us the golden vistas of bright futures based on technologies offering hitherto only-dreamed of performance.
Yet whilst looking specifically at the latest reports on the future of mobile broadband technologies, perhaps, as far as the IT/telecoms managers involved in making purchasing decisions should be concerned, there has been a tendency to get ahead of our - that's us as well - selves.
The thought struck whilst in conversation with CEO of technology company Precise. Whilst talking about his company's latest transactional performance management system, CEO Mark Kremer emphasised the importance of realising day-to-day issues, doubting whether any point in looking long term if you have not secured your short-term future. A lot of businesses would testify to that these days.
And this brings us to mobile broadband and specifically the rollout of the very high sped bandwidth on technologies such as LTE and WiMAX.
Now this is not to say that there is no place for thinking about the transition from your current mobile broadband technology to any of the so-called 4G ones; what we're saying is that right now there are probably more pressing issues to sort out such as your mobility strategy in general and ensuring how mobile broadband technology can make a positive contribution to business.
According to a recent report from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GMSA) , 26 vendors have confirmed that they will rollout out LTE based services from 2010 to 2012. Tellingly, no current domestic mobile broadband operator has announced that they will roll out LTE services in the
Precise's Kremer said that the IT industry had to measure the cadence of users' businesses. Pperhaps IT and telecoms buyers focus should be on figuring out how mobile workers could use for the business right now all of that extra bandwidth rather than dream of what might be in two years.
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