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Industry puts call out over wireless broadband future. Wi-Fi evolves, gets political

With more people downloading music and video to cellphones and devices, a top Sprint Nextel executive foresees the need for a new wireless broadband technology soon to handle the traffic.

Len Lauer, the company’s chief operating officer, told a wireless broadband conference Thursday that a new technology will be critical in a couple of years when the number of subscribers using these applications increases and the company’s current network taps out.

By Tricia Duryee

Seattle Times technology reporter

Full Story: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002750559_wireless20.html

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Wi-Fi evolves, gets political

Community groups focus on network neutrality

By GLENN FLEISHMAN
THE NEW YORK TIMES

When wireless Internet Wi-Fi was in its infancy, advocates just wanted more businesses to offer it and more people to use it. Today, the push is on to link all those hot spots into wide-area networks that are free and open to all legal uses of the Internet.

The idea of building citywide wireless networks from the community level was suspiciously simple back in 2000, although the plans sounded like the work of underground revolutionaries.

Full Story: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/256404_citywifi20.html

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