Jeffery Fuller, president and chief executive officer of Pacific Wireless Technologies in Fresno, a local competitor, explains why the combative wireless contest thrives here. It has a huge agricultural base and huge national production in agriculture. Three of the richest counties in the world are situated here. Agricultural products are perishable, and that makes how you treat them important.
Timing is important, and that makes communications and transportation important.
Wireless prices have declined over the past five years, says Sprint spokesman Bob Kelley, and that is one growth factor in an industry that now counts more than 100million U.S. wireless customers. By 2005, the total should pass 200 million. Now in its third generation, wireless approaches a crucial juncture in customer choice, when one technology may triumph, leaving the others and their customers in straits similar to Beta system VCR users years ago. Whatever path wins out, Central California appears to be hooked into the wireless era. This is why you have the big guys here.