From Gillmor:

Intel has announced a new chip (Mercury News) that can send and receive signals from a variety of wireless devices -- "part of the quest to create phones that could roam across different types of networks in any part of the world."

There will be a big market for this kind of thing (and Intel's far
from alone in this arena), becuase of all the different mobile
standards. My GSM phone only works in some places, inside and outside the U.S.; I'd like it to work wherever I go.

What will be interesting is watching the reaction to this kind of technology by the big mobile carriers. There is NO reason that with the technology we have today, that one cant make a wireless communication connection almost anywhere in the world, and have it be reliable and reasonably cheap. Wifi and WiMax ammong others are showing the way. Hmmmm, wonder how ICE will react to this kind of technology down the road.

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