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With a total of over 25 million terminals
shipped by the end of 1998 and a forecast of 75 milion by the year 2000, with several
million WLL lines contracted worldwide in 1998, with worldwide acceptance of the standard
in over 100 countries, DECT is a mature, robust, and field-proven platform for the
cordless communication evolution. The DECT standard is designed to be one of the core building blocks for the communications services of the future. The weight of support behind the DECT standard from users, manufacturers, network operators and regulatory bodies will ensure the standard to steadily increase its global presence, with all the benefits subsequent to long-term and continuing developments and large-scale deployment experience. DECT will play a central role in the convergence of fixed and mobile communication services. DECT is also ready to comply with service migration from mainly voice towards data and multimedia, e. g. Mobile Internet Connectivity, Mobile Videocommunication, Messaging, Telematics application and factory or home Automation, ISDN, and as an access channel to Internet and Intranet services. As DECT serves costomer needs which other technologies cannot provide, it will form an integral part of the evolution in UMTS. ITU's decision to select a range of available technologies rather than a single one brought DECT to apply for the IMT 2000 sepecification. The DECT standard was widely supported as it is the only cordless technology among those proposed, and the only one available today.
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