A decade ago, the mobile phones were rare and only meant for the wealthy and rich people. Now, there are more mobile phones than households in the US, and the numbers continue to grow exponentially. The time is not far away when it will be considered unusual not to have a mobile phone. With the popularity of mobile phones and cost factor involved in fixed telephone lines, it will not be wrong to say that the latter is on the verge of extinction.
The cost of calling from a mobile phone has decreased a lot in recent years. The young generation today has shown a lot of interest in text messaging and it is a new form of communication that has emerged in recent years.
Calling and sending SMS is not the only option. Today, majority of phones come with inbuilt camera, music player and games. Latest technologies such as infrared, Bluetooth, EDGE, GPRS, etc. have been integrated with the small wonder.
So, your mobile phone can take and send pictures, even videos, send SMS and download ring tones and games. Maybe you can even watch a little television and do some limited web browsing. The size of phones are diminishing but the features are increasing.
Mobile phone modelled into watch are already a success in Asia. Japanese service provider NTT DoCoMo teamed with watch maker Seiko to create the Wristomo, an ultra modern mobile which features email and Web access. This model sold out of its 1000 unit inventory in 20 minutes when released last May. Another successful model is the Samsung GPRS Class 10 which features an embedded Bluetooth interface and a bright 256-colour screen.
The next generation of mobile phone systems has reached the point where the five UK licences for the "third generation" (3G) frequencies have fetched over £20,000,000,000 for a 20 year allocation. This new Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network will offer much faster data access, more capacity and more. It is likely that it will supplant some of what we have taken as the work of fixed-line phones, as well as mobile phones. However, the huge price paid for the licenses suggests that these facilities won't come cheap!
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