Question : Telecommunications 2009 - 2020

I need some good resources that can help me predict the possible scenarios of what Telecommunications will look like between 2009 and 2020, and how it will come about.

Resources that says something like:

"today we are using xyz for telephone, wireless, data networks, etc.
Broadband will become available to everyone by 2013,
this will likely lead to the use of abc, etc.
By 2016, wireless will take x% of the market, etc...
These are the technologies that will get us there, and here's how...

I imagine that there are reputable Telecommunications websites that would have this kind of information. I have done many Google searches, but not many good ones seem to come up.

Hope there are a few knowledgeable Telecommunications responses out there.

Answer : Telecommunications 2009 - 2020

To start, I'll echo the above. Research groups like Gartner do regular reports of the type you describe. www.gartner.com of course they charge for these.

Other sites like Feirce Telecom, www.fiercetelecom.com/ focus on the industry and provide general market news and feature stories related to the overall industry.

in addition you can use tools like Google Alerts to stay on top of stuff like this. I have Google Alerts for things like "VoIP market" to keep track of regular news in that industry.

There are other industry/market research firms that target on telecom as well. TNS Telecommunications Research has furnished some of the market reports I've used in the past, they're pretty good.

But all of these are really just best guesses when it comes to predicting the future. If they were really psychic, they'd be picking lotto numbers.