New company, Cometa, created to push nationwide Wi-Fi AT&T Corp., Intel Corp. and IBM formally announced the formation of a new company, Cometa Networks, to help provide nationwide broadband wireless LAN (WLAN) Internet access. Cometa plans in 2003 to deploy WLAN Wi-Fi "hot spots" offering a raw data rate of 11M bit/sec. in the top 50 U.S. markets.
Daniel Francisco, an Intel spokesman, told Computerworld that Intel has invested in Cometa through its Intel Capital arm. The company's goal is to jump-start public-access WLAN development and deployment so that Wi-Fi hot spots are within a five-minute walk from any spot in urban America, or within a five-minute drive in the suburbs. Full article: http://computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,76441,00.html -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
