The wireless industry has grown tremendously over the last five years. This growth was made possible by improvements in wireless voice technologies - primarily the shift from analog networks to digital networks. Digital networks expanded network capacity, resulting in overall lower prices for wireless voice communications. Digital networks also promote better voice quality, longer battery life and support many other high value services, such as messaging, calling line identification, conference calling, call forwarding and voicemail notifications.

Over the next five years continued growth in the wireless industry is expected to come from wireless data. The potential for growth is significant. Recent technological developments have removed many barriers to entry related to the wireless exchange of data, including:

Network:

• Expanded wireless data network coverage
• Increased wireless data transmission speeds
• Ability to track volumes or packets of data transmitted rather than time used, allowing more competitive pricing
• "Always on" functionality

Industry Infrastructure:

• Wide selection of wireless devices competitively priced as well as a sizeable installed base of these devices
• Wide selection of wireless modems at competitive prices, often imbedded into the wireless device and with multiple wireless network options
• "Always on" functionality
• Application providers now have expertise in integrating wireless solutions into customer operations and businesses
• Increased understanding across industry of the benefits and competitive advantages of wireless solutions yielding a much improved ROI