A video kiosk running on Sprint's network on display at the CTIA Enterprise & Application show.
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SAN DIEGO--In case you didn't know, connected devices--or gadgets with a built-in cellular connection--are a big thing.
They've been a focus here at this year's CTIA Enterprise & Applications show. AT&T executive Glenn Lurie called it "the next big thing" in the wireless industry yesterday. His boss, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega, reiterated the sentiment today at the keynote address. Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead also talked up its position in the connected devices business.
The GSM Association and Machina Research said the addressable market for the wireless industry could be worth $1.2 trillion (yes, trillion) by 2020.
E-readers, digital picture frames, and vehicle tracking devices are obvious examples of connected devices. Tom Nelson, an executive in Sprint Nextel's emerging solutions group, talked about some of the more unorthodox connected devices. The carrier should know; it helped pioneer the original Amazon Kindle business model, which folded in the cellular cost into the purchase price of the digital book.
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