Two Big Changes Industry analysts say two events are speeding the rush to wireless. And the demand for data is soaring. In other words, they needed more space on the airwaves to send e-mail, files and images than to talk on the phone. Data is the business to be in. If you have any doubts, he says, just look at Internet traffic, which is doubling every 100 days.
Cable companies are already off to a great start.
Click on the lines to find out more about each deal. This Week's Push Three deals this week will push us into the world of hand-held appliances. Netscape this week hooked up with Nextel to pack the cell phone and companion palm-sized handsets with technology transforming it into a computer, fax machine and a Web browser. And Microsoft and British Telecom unveiled a deal to develop Internet and corporate data services for mobile telephone users worldwide. So far the companies aren't talking costs.