With wireless still in its relative infancy, attendees at Computerworld's Mobile & Wireless World conference are eagerly anticipating the future.

"We're just on the verge of being able to do some very exciting things," said presenter Al Briggs, director of mobile solutions services at Cox Communications.

The key to all the excitement is speed. Speed thrills wireless users.

Speed like that of EVDO Revision B, which may be coming as soon as 2008 to Sprint Nextel users, according to Stephanie A. Burnham, marketing group manager of business solutions at Sprint. "Rev B" will provide 73.5M bit/sec. download speeds and 23M bit/sec. upload speeds.

"That's insane," Burnham said.