A Short History of Wireless Data
A Short History of Wireless Data
- Wide Area Data
- Ardis
- 1983: IBM + Motorola; IBM sells out in 1994
- 1994: 35,000 users, 1300 base stations. 45 million msgs per month, 19.2 kbps
- RAM Mobile Data/Mobitex
- Bell South/Ericsson/Motorola
- 1986: deployed in Sweden
- 1989: 840 base stations, 40 switching centers, in 100 metro areas, 6300 US cities and towns, 8000 kbps, nationwide roaming
- 1994: 12,000 subscribers in US