Intel Pushes 802.16a Wireless MAN Standard

An anonymous reader writes "The 802.16a standard, approved in January of this year, is a wireless metropolitan area network technology that will connect 802.11 hot spots to the Internet and provide a wireless extension to cable and DSL for last mile broadband access. It provides up to 50-kilometers of range and allows users to get broadband connectivity without needing a direct line of sight with the base station. The wireless broadband technology also provides shared data rates up to 70-Mbit/s."

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Please let it be 802.11 "G"

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Will it be based on 802.11a 802.11b or 802.11g? Lets hope "G" is used so that all our "B" hardware can be maintained. Knowing Intel though, they'll probably back "A" just to spite everybody.