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New venture signals 802.11 emergence

By Stanford Center for Internet and Society on December 10, 2002 at 2:02 PM

New venture signals 802.11 emergence The growing popularity of wireless communication using connections based on the IEEE 802.11 or Wi-Fi wireless technology standard got a huge boost on 5 December, when AT&T, Intel, and IBM announced the formation of a joint venture whose aim to place a wireless Internet access point within five minutes of anyone in the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas by 2004.

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