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COPYRIGHT 2001 Crain Communications, Inc.
NEW YORK--Third-generation technology is completely unnecessary for taking advantage of data opportunities, which are growing even though widespread consumer adoption may be years away, according to speakers at the recent Wireless Wednesdays "Killer Mobile Applications and Opportunities" seminar.
"The widespread belief that you need 3G to do meaningful things is untrue because you can do a tremendous amount with existing networks. BlackBerry runs on a paging network. I-mode, which runs at 96 kilobits per second, is hugely popular despite competitors that are orders of magnitude faster," said Omar Javaid, chairman and cofounder of Mobilocity.
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