Everyone wishes that wireless worked better and that universal access to the enterprise without wires were a reality. Forget about it. The technology to do this consistently well is not sufficiently universal for wireless to fly in a big way. Likewise, demand for it is not sufficiently high to act as a catalyst for the necessary infrastructure investments to be made. Long term, of course, wireless will become standard, but for the time being, the technology and investment are too high in comparison to the demand.
Forecasting is a dangerous art.
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