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Started by : Shyamal Maity, Sales/BD Manager, AT&T   02 09 2009 08:12:11 +0000
Industry : Telecom/ISPFunctional Area : Business Models(Strategy & Execution)
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Though the picture of 4G networks and its promises looks good for the future, there are number of issues with wireless which are still to be resolved.  So what are those issues and threats related to the wireless future...

 
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2 Convergence, Data Theft
3 Lack of Standards
4 Wireless Spam

Security

idea posted by Radha Sundaram Sales/BD Manager, Bharti Airtel

To me Security for mobile also is a major issue in this category, wireless computing is a particularly difficult problem. Technologies, such as cell phones and others, have almost no security because of poorly designed communications protocols.
There are more options for bolstering security. Like, industry analysts are recommending firewalls for mobile devices wherever practical and antivirus software developers have added extensions into their products to support the most common handheld devices. Even then, there are no fool-proof solutions.


According to some recent research, the situation is made more complex because mobile workers tend to be less technically adept. Therefore, security for their devices must be automatic and transparent in order to be effective.

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I agree with Ms.Radha.Security has been a major concern here.The device has to be intelligent enough in catching the fishy content thus ensuring required safety to the end-user. There are many fraud softwares to easily access the other mobiles and steal the sensitive information without the knowledge of user. One may not be that smart to handle such cases.

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Convergence, Data Theft

idea posted by Vijay Bhaskar COO, Divami Software Private Limited

For me, as the technology improves, it is going to be the challenges of data theft. As an example, RFID enabled cards contain a lot of personal data and with the onset of many types of card readers, the 'enabled' hacker can steal all your personal info and misuse it. But at the same time, in a converged world, the same info is used as a SSO identifier. So once the info is out, it is out for good (of the hacker).

Spam - yes, but I do believe that there would be stricter laws in the future - just like no calls registry to protect users from spam. The other aspects of security like viruses etc are still there, but that is one think that cannot be stopped so easily - for every system that has a code, it can be cracked/hacked.

Regards,

VB

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Lack of Standards

idea posted by Abhinav Garg Sales/BD Manager, Bharti Airtel

In order to achieve interoperability, international consortia and standardization bodies such as the ISO (International Standard Organization), OMG (Object Management Group), W3C (WWW Consortium), IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), SS7 (Signalling System) and TINA (Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Consortium) all of them have released standards specification for open distributed system. These bodies shape the IT landscape and increasingly release mobile computing related specifications.

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Wireless Spam

idea posted by Shyamal Maity Sales/BD Manager, AT&T

According to me the wireless spam is a issue that is bothering the users.  The cellular networks currently lack the capacity for widespread distribution of unsolicited wireless advertising or (wireless spam), these advertisements are already very well known in Japan, Europe, US and other countries where they have proven to be a significant burden on the cellular users. 

As cell phone advertising which was hailed as the biggest innovation in the day to day widening market made available only through the advancement of technology.  They believed it would lead the world in ushering in a new age of commerce. Wireless advertisements, in the form of emails delivered to cellular phones, would offer consumers time and location-relevant information. These unsolicited advertisements are generally unwanted and commonly referred to as ?spam, and users at times are annoyed with so many spam messages... So this is one such issue or threat that is there with the wireless. So what are the others in this category...

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