How will 4G networks change business?
Today’s cell phones are generally great at what they were originally intended to do — make calls, send text messages, that sort of thing. But with an ever-growing amount of Internet-related activity taking place on modern mobile phones, the current networks can’t keep up. They have a knack for becoming completely swamped whenever too many people try to update their Twitter account, download music, watch videos, check traffic reports or do whatever other online activities they’re burning to do while away from their traditional computers. Just as mainstream cell-users have started to get more comfortable with the term 3G, the third-generation technology that supports “smartphones,” whispers of a mythical 4G on the horizon have already started to spread. In a basic sense, 4G (fourth-generation wireless communications) will involve settling mobile communications f