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could have on the organisation in the short to medium term. All respondents answers
were coded in a spreadsheet as presented in Appendix H. The average percentage was
computed as in question 6 (Table 5:5) to derive the graph depicted in Figure 5:8 Overall
importance of emerging technologies.
Table 5:5 Respondents rating base on the importance of emerging mobile technologies
Unsure
Not
important at
all
- 110 -
Somewhat
important important
Very
Important
VoIP and IP telephony 25% 0 5% 10% 60%
Converged
communications 55% 0 5% 20% 20%
Video Telephony 35% 15% 0 20% 30%
WI-FI 35% 0 5% 15% 45%
WIMAX 40% 0 0 20% 40%
Mobile-FI 15% 0 5% 10% 10%
GPRS 10% 0 15% 15% 20%
3G 50% 0 0 10% 40%
3G (HSDPA) 45% 0 0 10% 45%
Data casting 60% 0 5% 20% 15%
Unified Communication 60% 0 0 25% 15%
Location-Aware
Technologies 60% 0 0 20% 20%
Location-based
technologies 45% 5% 20% 10% 20%
Instant messaging 35% 0 5% 10% 10%
Communication enabled
applications 30% 0 5% 10% 55%
Synchronous
collaboration 45% 0 0 10% 45%
Remote security and
monitoring 45% 0 0 10% 45%
Mobile VPN data access 50% 0 0 10% 40%
Average 41 % 1 % 4 % 14 % 32 %
While approximately 40% of the respondents are unsure as shown in Figure 5:8 and
approximately 35% feel that these technologies are very important to conducting
business.