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Price of early 3G services "too expensive for consumers" - Compaq.
by Guy Kewney | posted on 02 April 2002
Compaq roadmaps don't yet include any wireless devices capable of using 3G infrastructure, the company reported at an Intel conference in Ireland recently. They will be too expensive till at least 2004.
Mike Bonello, European mobile marketing director at Intel, told a seminar at Leixlip that his wireless plans were all based around WLAN at this point, since it was available. He said Compaq had "no timescale yet to develop silicon for 3G products, according to Ireland's Business And Finance publication, and that it was "focusing on other technologies which were currently available - such as 802.11.
Intel is also working on chips that would make mobile computing simpler by enabling seamless roaming on different technologies, he said.
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