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To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (11830)	6/8/2000 11:29:00 AM
From: Caxton Rhodes	Respond to of 13582

Lucent and Ericsson push forward on Bluetooth By Steve Riseborough, Total Telecom 07 June 2000 Lucent Technologies and Ericsson Mobile Communications have announced a licensing agreement to jointly develop solutions for the Bluetooth standard. Based on Ericsson's core architecture, the highlight of the collaboration will be the development of an integrated, Bluetooth-enabled chip described as a "super component". The companies said they expect the self-contained chip to be highly attractive to manufacturers, because it can simply be slotted into existing devices, creating a significant time-to-market advantage. Bluetooth, developed following widespread industry collaboration, is a short-hop wireless technology which allows cellular phones, PCs and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) with embedded chips to share information. Market research company Cahners In-Stat forecasts that over 670 million Bluetooth-enabled devices will be in circulation worldwide by 2005. The announcement with Lucent comes as Ericsson also unveiled, at the CommunicAsia2000 conference in Singapore, Bluetooth products comprising two handsets and a PC card. Due for release early next year, the company hopes the launch of these devices will help it steal a march on rivals Nokia and Motorola. Ericsson's vice president of marketing, Jan Ahrenbring, told The Philippine Star on Tuesday that about 2,000 companies had already signed agreements to make products based on the Bluetooth specifications.