Aether, Openwave, Infospace, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, Sprint, Verizon, ATT Wireless, Nextel, Voicestream. Email, stock quotes, horoscopes. Knockoffs of the wired Internet. Some of this is due to market peculiarities in Japan. There s a real chance for conflict in the market place between WANs and LANs.
Consumers don t care how they get access.
Worse yet, the customer gets confused about switching devices when indoors vs outdoors. WLAN will always offer higher data rates and capabilities more similar to a wired network. WWAN will have more widespread coverage, but at lower data rates and lower quality of service. Over hyped right now. Will take longer to emerge than expected.