Why Cell Phones Will Dominate the Future Internet
date: Mon May 16 16:40:39 2005
created: Fri May 13 21:52:25 2005

<p><a href="http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Main/index.html">This paper</a> speculates that in the near future cell phones will become the predominant way of using the Internet. Interestingly, <a href="http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Main/index.html">Keshav</a> predicts that this will lead to deployment of a lot of advanced networking technology that we have been waiting for, like IPv6 and quality of service guarantees. While I disagree with some of the details, I agree with the overall idea, and I think his conclusions are somewhat surprising, yet still plausible. [<em>Updated:</em> Check out a related paper about <a href="/researchpapers/cellphone-pcs.txt">The Mobile Phone as Home Computer</a>]</p>