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Saturday, December 14, 2002
The Big Boys' Mad Dash into Wi-Fi - Heather Green and Ben Elgin
The wireless Internet is all the rage. The question now: Can tech giants turn it into a bona fide, billable business?... Now, this technology, known as wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, is taking off. Vast, informal networks are sprouting up. Zippy Wi-Fi connections, each one with a range of some 300 feet, now blanket entire neighborhoods from New York to Stockholm to Hong Kong. Some 2 million mobile surfers in North America already use Wi-Fi, and Gartner Inc. expects the number to double by next year. The surge in demand has prompted the Federal Communications Commission to find ways to set aside more spectrum for Wi-Fi.
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