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Technology Stocks : 4G - Wireless Beyond Third Generation
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To: elmatador who wrote (370)6/5/2003 11:15:36 AM
From: Eric L  Read Replies (3) of 1002
 
Unrest in 802.20 Land?

>> 4G Wi-Fi Plans Sabotaged

05/06/03
CommsDay Asia

802.20, a new so-called 4G standard designed to combine the best of mobile and Wi-Fi technologies, may have been killed at birth after interests associated with rival 3G manufacturers took control of the standard's working group.

Development of the 802.20 - the latest in a long line of wireless networking 802 standards from the US Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - reportedly ground to a halt after representatives of the 3G sector packed a March IEEE meeting in Texas and voted out previous officeholders.

The 802.20 proposal promises multi-megabit mobility using the OFDM protocol, as opposed to the CDMA and TDMA protocols of 3G that have seen massive ongoing investment.

Prior to March, the IEEE 802.20 Working Group was headed by representatives of 4G developers such as Flarion, Navini and Arraycomm. However, they were voted out of office and replaced by representatives of Lucent, NTT DoCoMo and a former senior Motorola executive.

An executive from Navini accused the new officeholders of staging a "political coup" aimed at suppressing development of the 802.20 technology. Attendance at the meeting was three times as great as the previous meeting, and many of the new attendees represented companies with no direct involvement in OFDM and related technologies.

According to a report in Canada Network World magazine, the IEEE might refuse to accept the results of the election. <<

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