Bye, Bye Mobile Phone, Hello Mobile Broadband
Most people, well quite a few, can name the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell. ; Even if he wasn’t the inventor of the telephone, only the first person to patent the idea. The telephone eventually had a very large effect on the world and the way people contact each other.
However, it’s fair to say in my opinion, that the mobile phone and now new mobile broadband connections are having a far more dramatic effect on the world at large. It took the best part of 100 years for the telephone to become established as the major way of contacting people around the world.
It has only taken since 1973 for mobile phones to dominate communication, incidentally invented by someone who has slipped into obscurity, an employee of Motorola, Dr Martin Cooper.
In my opinion, mobile phones have had a short but interesting life, but their days are very much numbered as mobile broadband is set to take its place. Connections to the Internet, and through that, to the telephone system are becoming cheap and highly efficient. For example, pay as you go mobile broadband has made it practical for just about anybody to connect to the Internet via a mobile device.
I believe that this is type of communication in one form or another will soon catch up with the basic mobile phone. It will then not take long for mobile broadband to become the dominant mobile communication vehicle.
