It can remotely lock down a system to prevent tampering, request images from security cameras or monitor a location. By choosing the right technology to provide the right solutions to solve real business problems, network operators will be able to create an environment where present and future technologies flourish. The solution lies in the integration of current hardware with the next generation delivery. Today's modems carry connectors for ISDN, xDSL and analogue. Next generation mobile technologies will need to be backward compatible.
Many people regard mobile phones to be exclusively used for voice conversations.
Everyone believes that this is the dominant use of a phone. However, this is not necessarily true. Another example is that different devices, similar to a mobile phone, such as a Palm Pilot with communications capability, will entirely be used for wireless data communications. Network Agnostic mobile devices. Manufacturers will be producing mobile devices that are network agnostic, equally capable of supplying content over GSM as they are over GPRS or UMTS, the quality of the applications dependent on the delivery system.