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A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2007, from Facebook and the iPhone to the Nintendo Wii.

Extract from a BBC News Website item published 1 January 2008 

But what will be making the headlines over the next 12 months?

The BBC News website gives its predictions for technologies that could become big in 2008.

1. The Web to Go
2. WiMAX
3. Mobile VoIP

On-Communications CEO, Ian Roberts comments: 

I totally agree with these Hot 3 from BBC News. As always the devil is in the detail, and I have explored this in individual postings.

BBC News tips WiMAX  as key a technology to make it big in 2008.

Extract from a BBC News Website item originally published 1 January 2008.

Wimax is a wireless technology that can deliver high speed broadband over long distances. It is already big in the US with companies such as Sprint and Intel backing the technology. Some areas of the developed world, such as Abuja in Nigeria, are also trialling the technology.

However, according to analyst Mike Roberts of research firm Informa Media and Telecoms, it has never taken off in Europe. But, he said, that could all change in 2008. “Next year could be the first year that we see some of the major deployments of Wimax in Europe,” he said.

On-Communications CEO, Ian Roberts comments:

2008 is definitely the year for WiMAX deployments, but let’s be clear why there have been no UK WiMAX deployments so far (even when it has been claimed). It is simply that despite all the manufacturers hype, the technology just hasn’t been ready to deploy until now. However, watch this space for our own announcements on WiMAX early this year.