The sector deemed to take second place is the government and public safety area, driven by fire and police operations. Other business segments ripe for substantial growth in the use of wireless services include professional services (lawyers, doctors, etc.), healthcare, and pharmaceuticals.
Strategy Analytics predicted that traditional software and services in the IT-wireless category will change dramatically, with a heavy emphasis to be placed on core business-software applications." Observing that there will be a big empty space of functionality between IT wireless services offered by the mobile-service providers for big enterprises and the business offerings for smaller businesses, Raskind said the space represents a business opportunity to companies that can fill it.
"Mobile operators can effectively provide voice services and basic groupware messaging to companies of all sizes and specialties," he said. "But mobile operators can only go so high up the complexity scale towards custom solutions." Large IT specialist firms will focus on the high end, he added.
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