Rocket-speed 4G networks prepare for launch

GLOBAL – Looking backwards is healthy and can be entertaining, but it’s no secret that the guiltiest vice of being immersed in the mobile world is looking forward and seeing our future relationships with devices come into focus. Over the past couple of years we’ve witnessed the reality of high-speed data and Internet connectivity on the move, triggering an explosion in mobile Internet services and encouraging innovations such as location based services. Recent developments with HSDPA and the emergence of 3.5G networks has helped cement this, but already the seeds of a 4G planet are being sewed.

INTERNATIONAL – A recent report by ABI research predicts the next generation of mobile broadband, dubbed ‘4G’, will take a long time to take off, and even five years from now will make up only a tiny proportion of mobile Internet users.