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If nothing else, 2005 was an entertaining year for many a town, city or even county — though the entertainment sometimes came at the expense of incumbent telecommunications companies.
Via [govtech.net]

Korea Telecom, the top fixed broadband service carrier here, and France’s Alcatel said they will establish a joint research center in a move to gain the top position in a recently-certified mobile wireless broadband service called WiBro.
Via [eetimes.com]

Many analysts feel that it will be only a matter of time before other states join Nevada in adopting laws to accommodate gambling in casinos with WiFi devices. In fact, Aimee Marcel, gaming analyst at Jefferies & Co. recently said: ” This has the potential to be a huge growth vehicle for the manufacturers.”
Via [technewsworld.com]

Kurt Peterson knows how to pick his Wi-Fi. “I go anywhere I can get it for free,” he says. “Why should I pay? Enough people do it for free.”
Via [usatoday.com]

Mobile WiMax trials and certification testing based on the new IEEE spec are expected to start in the first quarter of 2006, organized by the WiMax Forum.
Via [informationweek.com]

Continued delays in the WiMax certification process are posing a “real challenge” to the rollout of the long-range wireless broadband service in Europe.
Via [networks.silicon.com]

Nintendo Co. Ltd. said on Wednesday that nearly 200,000 unique users worldwide have tapped its three-week-old Wi-Fi Connection wireless service available through the Nintendo DS video game player.
Via [today.reuters.com]

A WiMAX wireless broadband network covering 8000 square miles of southeastern Alberta will be rolled out in 2006, equipment vendor Nortel and a Canadian governmental body said Wednesday.
Via [commsdesign.com]

Both fixed and mobile WiMAX will be important to cellular operators to help them relieve congestion from their cellular data networks and to prepare for data technologies beyond 3G, a study released Tuesday by ABI Research claims.
Via [eet.com]

The vendor has joined the Wi-Fi Alliance, saying it wants to make sure its 3G products are compatible with what the group is doing. Qualcomm is one of largest providers of cellular chipsets.
Via [informationweek.com]

Jennic is working with Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry (III) to provide a ZigBee stack on its JN5121 microcontroller for Asia-Pacific market.
Via [eetuk.com]

The Wi-Fi Alliance on Tuesday is set to attack one of the main problems with wireless LAN phones by certifying features to extend battery life.
Via [pcworld.com]

Over two years ago a group was founded to reverse engineer the Broadcom Wireless LAN chipsets to provide Linux drivers. This chipset is used by many OEMs, for example in Apple’s AirPort Extreme in Power- and iBooks, Linksys’ WAP and WRT series of consumer grade wireless routers, various laptops from Acer, Gateway, HP and others and many more external and internal devices, including CardBus cards.
Via [linuxelectrons.com]

Cisco Systems has thrown its support behind an evolving set of wireless standards that will enable cellular carriers to offer new services based on the Internet Protocol.
Via [news.com.com]

The acceleration in the deployment of WiMAX, the latest wireless technology, by the Goverment is one way of increasing the rate of personal computer and Internet adoption across the country, says the world’s biggest chipmaker Intel Corp.
Via [btimes.com.my]