http://shift6.net/2007/11/03/changing-the-rules-for-mobile/ Youth, mobility and media Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:37:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://shift6.net/2007/11/03/changing-the-rules-for-mobile/#comment-18 Randy Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:15:21 +0000 http://shift6.net/2007/11/03/changing-the-rules-for-mobile/#comment-18 I was hopeful that the standards would come out of the Wimax project, and that mobile phone systems would switch to a multi-use system with both 3G and Wimax and connection streams. Why? Africa. I think we still have the chance to help Africa leapfrog the decades of technology growing pains and go straight to large scale wired coverage. The $100 laptop should help speed this along, but to make the mobile THE computing system would be an amazing feat and I hope it happens for so many reasons. I was hopeful that the standards would come out of the Wimax project, and that mobile phone systems would switch to a multi-use system with both 3G and Wimax and connection streams. Why? Africa. I think we still have the chance to help Africa leapfrog the decades of technology growing pains and go straight to large scale wired coverage. The $100 laptop should help speed this along, but to make the mobile THE computing system would be an amazing feat and I hope it happens for so many reasons.

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