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From: Dexter Lives On	9/21/2006 11:02:40 AM
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Intel Unveils Amazon River WiMax Network By Jessica Davis -- Electronic News, 9/20/2006 Intel Chairman Craig Barrett today took the wraps off one of the semiconductor giant’s most remote WiMax networks – the town of Parintins on an island in the Amazon river in Brazil. The network is expected to improve the healthcare and education of the town’s 114,000 residents and is part of Intel’s World Ahead Program in which the microprocessor maker plans to invest more than $1 billion globally over the next five years to accelerate computer and internet access for those in developing communities. "Technology has expanded what is possible in Parintins," Barrett said, in a prepared statement at a dedication ceremony today in the Amazon rain forest. "It is now a place where wireless broadband links to the Internet bring the expertise of specialists, sophisticated medical imaging and the world's libraries to a community reachable only by airplane or boat." Working with the Brazilian government and business and education officials, Intel and its collaborators installed the WiMax network for a primary healthcare center, two public schools, a community center and Amazon University. Intel also donated and installed telemedicine equipment at the health center and computer labs at the two schools where students and teachers can regularly connect to the outside world for the first time. .... ecnmag.com TM

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