Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Battle for the Future of Mobile Broadband

by Paul Marks New Scientist, 29 Oct 2005 If you live out in the sticks, too far from your telephone exchange to have access to a broadband internet connection, you can soon expect to be hearing a lot about a technology called WiMAX. Now a group of companies led by chip-maker Intel is planning to extend the concept with a version of WiMAX that can communicate with mobile devices such as laptops and smart phones. But not everyone in the industry welcomes this development. Read more