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To define customers and services consistently, Web Services standards for creating business registries have emerged to make data semantically interoperable, which is particularly difficult when multiple legacy applications support different functions. For service providers to measure how actions impact services and underlying infrastructure, they must give consistent semantics to services. “We have been working with the W3C the past two years to improve UDDI with Semantic Web—intended to further standardize definitions of services and tighten the integration between machines,” says Rdzak.

T-Mobile believes that Web Services’ ability to tightly integrate machine-to-machine communication will open the door to RFID services. “As we increase the utility of our networks through a focus on broadband and wireless Internet, the possibilities will be endless in terms of services we can think up,” contends Moiin, who looks beyond using networks for data or telephony. “If cars, ovens, refrigerators and just about any object could exchange information in a meaningful manner, we could greatly increase the amount of traffic on our networks. Entire city blocks could be equipped with wireless technologies that enable machines, objects and people to communicate.”

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