| If you thought wireless Internet was a flash in the | | | | populations around the globe. The biggest market |
| pan and not here to stay, well guess again. The | | | | will be the 18 - 25 year olds, as they are the |
| numbers are out for the people who have | | | | most on the go people. They can use wireless |
| subscribed to wireless Internet and they are | | | | Internet for college from anywhere, at any time |
| staggering. Almost as many people have wireless | | | | and be connected. They don't have to commit to |
| Internet as have a MySpace page! | | | | a contract or a service to hook up to. They can |
| Ok, for real the wireless revolution is becoming | | | | research in class instead of waiting to get an |
| more popular and convenient each year. With | | | | answer in the library in a day or two. Immediate |
| more people signing up for the service, the | | | | answers define their generation. |
| service can expand in to more areas, becoming a | | | | Wireless connections may not increase |
| larger network. The larger networks draw more | | | | dramatically for the older aged people because of |
| customers in, making more users to spread the | | | | their lack of mobility. Not that they aren't mobile, |
| cost out on. More users = lower costs for every | | | | they just aren't connected to mobile devices like |
| one. With any case of supply and demand, once | | | | young people seem to be. A lot of adults grew up |
| you have a steady supply and a steady demand, | | | | and managed without cell phones for several |
| the price goes down. The lower the price, the | | | | years, so they don't feel the need to have one at |
| more attainable wireless Internet will be for | | | | their side at all times now. If they need |
| everybody. | | | | information, they can go online from a computer |
| The estimates done by researchers say there | | | | or even find a library like they always did before. |
| are close to 250 million subscribers to a broadband | | | | The 250 million subscriptions also range over all |
| service. That number includes all of the major | | | | speeds of Internet. The people who are still on |
| carriers from around the globe, not just the | | | | 2G networks, the people who are subscribed to |
| United States. The only part of the globe without | | | | 3G networks - which is the majority - and those |
| heavy activity on the Internet is northern and | | | | who are on the cutting edge and already have a |
| western Africa, Greenland and spots in Russia. | | | | 4G plan in place are all counted. Every subscriber |
| And it's only a matter of time before a company | | | | is counted no matter their connection speed, as |
| comes in to evaluate if there is a need for | | | | long as it is wireless. As soon as more people get |
| wireless Internet access in those regions as well. | | | | connected to the 4G network, working on the 5G |
| Will wireless continue to grow? | | | | network technology will begin. Then the Internet |
| Wireless Internet will continue to grow in certain | | | | age will get even faster, if that's possible. |