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Take the car industry – it used to focus just on making cars but as technology came along they could do more – like connect with GPS. When I had an accident recently, my BMW called the police and told them my location before I even [got out my mobile]. Those things develop separately. Those things can seem obvious, but sometimes industries can be quite segmented. In the IT business, there was the WAN environment and the wired environment – the [established] way that people did things. This ‘wireless thing’ was [seen as an] upstart and those who were developing it were broadly competing with [their colleagues] because the more people went wireless, the less people would be wired

The Wireless Internet Opportunity for Developing Countries examines the emergence and promise of proven and inexpensive technologies to bridge the connectivity gap at the root of the digital divide.

The promises of wireless Internet technologies have generated much interest on the part of the international-development community.

While in developed nations these technologies have primarily been associated with mobility applications and local area networking in homes and offices, their most intriguing application in developing nations is the deployment of low-cost broadband Internet infrastructure and lastmile distribution.