Stephan believes that the future is in intelligent Internet-enabled mobile devices, predicted by some to become as prevalent as fixed-line telephones by 2008.

According to Suzette Victor, sales operations manager of the Venture Communications Group, technologies that will have an impact on the mobile space include the proliferation of VOIP calls -- like Skype -- and free handset-to-handset (point-to-point) calls to bypass cellular networks altogether.

Victor notes that the 'seamless handoff' is also a challenge of the future of mobility. 'Many see the possibility of a seamless transition -- during a single telephone call -- from a wireless network to the cellular networks as a natural evolution of both services,' she says.

Ultimately Stephan sees a meshing of technologies such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX and traditional mobile packet transmission technologies, such as GPRS and 3G in the not too distant future.

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