Today there might be 11 million enterprise users of wide area wireless services, says The Yankee Group. Over the next 3 years, enterprises will equip more PCs with 3G and Wi-Fi. Hand held devices will tend to get Wi-Fi. More mobile phones will be dual mode, capable of connecting over cellular and Wi-Fi networks. And there will be more smart phones.One of the issues is whether, or how much, devices such as the iPhone can wrest market share away from RIM's BlackBerry and other smart phone implementations. As important as the answer is for Apple and at&t, as well as Apple's rival handset manufacturers and carriers such as Verizon, lots of carriers in global markets are going to contend with Apple as well.
For some of us, there are other issues, such as how well, and in what user segments, devices such as the iPhone will penetrate professional and business markets, even if Apple never targets enterprise customer segments outside of the education, marketing and advertising verticals.
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