EDGE is a packet technology that is much more efficient and improves a qualitative difference in the performance of the network. EDGE starts at 384kbps and doesn't look back. We have a path for the next five to six years to get us into the multi- megabit territory, into the area of true broadband. Access is a good start. E- mail is a good start.
Short messaging is great.
But this is just the beginning. Many of the applications that you see on the Internet today are asymmetric. Downstream data rates are much faster than upstream rates. Phones will evolve. They will become much more like mobile terminals.