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To: Cooters who wrote (45725)	5/5/2005 11:27:11 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 196991

WSJ -- Intel and Sprint to Test Technology Related to WiFi ................................. May 6, 2005 Intel and Sprint to Test Technology Related to WiFi By DON CLARK Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Intel Corp. lined up Sprint Corp. to test a highly touted technology called WiMAX, a major focus of Intel's crusade to become a bigger player in the wireless business. The companies said they had reached an agreement to advance the development of WiMAX, a cousin of the familiar WiFi technology that backers hope will blanket entire cities with high-speed Internet access. Other companies are testing WiMAX, including AT&T Corp., but Sprint's interest is significant because it operates one of the biggest U.S. data networks based on technology from Qualcomm Inc. Oliver Valente, Sprint's chief technology officer, said his company plans to upgrade to a version of Qualcomm's technology that could offer mobile users average transmission speeds of 400 to 700 kilobits per second. But WiMAX could make it possible to deliver several megabits of data per second, enough speed for video and data services for devices beyond phones, he added. Qualcomm officials have noted that it will take time and effort to adapt WiMAX for users on the move and questioned the availability of wireless frequencies to make it broadly available. Mr. Valente, however, said his company has free radio spectrum, though isn't likely to deploy WiMAX until 2008 if it decides to go beyond testing. "We are in the due-diligence phase," he said. Sean Maloney, an Intel executive vice president, this week gave a demonstration of WiMAX that included users in vehicles and transmission ranges of 12 miles. He predicted WiMAX deployments will start in Japan late this year and in South Korea in 2006. During a meeting with analysts in New York yesterday, Intel Chief Executive Officer Craig Barrett predicted that WiMAX is "going to have an even greater impact than WiFi on our business." Intel estimates that WiFi -- and its Centrino brand that helped promote the technology -- helped to boost the annual growth of notebook-computer sales to 22%, up from a growth rate of about 10% between 2000 and 2003. President Paul Otellini, who takes the CEO position from Mr. Barrett on May 18, said the company is on its way to its third straight year of "double digit" growth on a percentage basis. Write to Don Clark at don.clark@wsj.com Copyright © 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.