Fearless predictions for 2003. (Guest Opinion).(Industry Overview)

I believe 2003 will be the most critical year in the history of the wireless industry. On the voice side, wireless carriers are under severe pressure from Wall Street to become free cash flow positive in 2003. To accomplish this, they must avoid a damaging price war and shift the battle for market share into a competition for overall share of the household telecom wallet. In wireless data, now that we've reached critical mass on networks, devices and content, this will be the year where we will be truly able to gauge demand, which has a huge impact on the business case for 3G. Ear