Wrap-up and summary from Mobile World Congress
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Karen Ambrose Hickey, EditorSo what do we take away from 4 days of mobility, android, LTE and lively chat? Here are my top 3 items:
- LTE is here; it is performing well; and will in the next two years provide more bandwidth for resource-hungry apps. The older 2G and to some extent 3G networks will be gone within 2-4 years.
- Mobile cloud computing is just about to become a reality. The move towards the mobile cloud is already real for some and will become the norm for most of us in the next 5 years or so. It will be a rapid change, not even an evolution, but a quick change. We are using the cloud now but in most cases we do not realize it.
- Users are now in control of the changes (Mobilocracy rules!); no longer can the operator or vendor dictate what or will not be available. If you do not have it, then people will move and you will have to change to survive. All those efforts to reduce churn will be for naught.
Item 3 will perhaps be the most powerful change to the mobile world!
Until the next MWC 2012…….
Adieu from a wet Barcelona.
[Thanks Ian, for your incredible contributions. ~ Ed.]
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For all our Mobile World Congress 2011 posts:
Day 4 – ending with the Network Evolution
Day 4 at MWC – Less LTE, but that LG 3D Android tablet!
More on Day 3
Long Live LTE!
Pictures: Mobile World Congress exhibits
Street pics and schwag from MWC
Day 2 p.m., device liability and putting the cloud to work
Day 2, a.m. – No-Kill Apps and a totally mobile company
Video from Gemalto about Wi-Fi roaming
All about Android – Exhibits at MWC
Getting to Mobile World Congress
Morning of Day 1 at the Mobile World Congress
Tags: 3G network, 4G network, LTE, mobile workforce
