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The New Wireless Wars

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the always-declaring-war dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BusinessWeek has a story on the coming wireless wars. It's a look at how the upcoming government auction of wireless spectrum will open the door to a new crop of competitors. The new players, from Google and Microsoft to Intel and Craig McCaw's Clearwire, will compete in new wireless voice services and in wireless broadband. Look out Cingular, Verizon Wireless, and Sprint-Nextel."

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  1. "Please save me. Magical Community" networks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "What I'd like to see is peer-to-peer community networks which use each device as a node. That would free us from this centralised manipulation of the market."

    You-->---vast geographic wasteland--->---some large metropolitain city.
          |               |                |
    Hope--         Shark--      More hope--