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The Internet in the Palm of Your Hand Ronald M. Buchanan 27 August 2001 Introduction 3G is positioned to radically transform the Internet paradigm from a static, PC-centric model into a mobile Internet. Imagine commuting home from work on a train while conducting a broadband videoconference on a handset no larger than today’s cellular telephone. Scenarios as this are s what have the telecommunications industry and governments energized. Of course, there are t h issues yet to be addressed with the imminent rollout of 3G. Will there be a global standard? g Who will control the airwave spectrums necessary for 3G? When will it arrive? And, finally, i r what are the security concerns?Key fingerprint = AF19 FA27 2F94 998DTo bett er understand where we are headed tomorrow; let’s take FDB5 DE3D F8B5 06E4 A169 4E46 l l a look to see has what has brought us to the brink of 3G. u f s The mobile communications industry has evolved in three stages: analogue, digital and, finally, n multimedia. Each of these stages is expressed as a “generation” with analogue being the fi