With the development of the wireless communication industry, wireless data communications have become a very important research area for many scientists.
Advocating an expansion in the number of frequencies, or channels, that can be used for a single wireless data transmission is an industry group called the Home RF, which includes Motorola mot, Intel intc, Siemens and others.
As recently as this summer, Metricom's Ricochet, a high-speed wireless data network, drew shrugs from industry analysts.
In October Allam joined the firm, now known as Mobility Network Systems, and began pitching his ideas for devices that will let a telecom carrier or any company transmit wireless data at high speeds using industry standards.
RIM is a global leader in antenna design and has been successfully designing industry-leading wireless data products with efficient and effective radio performance for over 20 years.
Mobile operators simply cannot afford to give consumers free unlimited access to wireless data at any speed in an industry where revenue fell 4 percent last year in Britain and was down 6 percent on average across Europe, Mr. Barford said.
McDonald's is also exploring an ambitious wireless data network, according to Dewayne Hendricks, a wireless industry consultant at the Dandin Group in Fremont, Calif.
He said that there would be as many as 50 billion devices transmitting and receiving wireless data by 2020, leading many in the wireless industry to forecast a spectrum crisis.
"I am not as optimistic as I was a month ago," said Andrew Seybold, publisher of Outlook 4Mobility, an industry newsletter in Los Gatos, Calif., covering wireless data.
