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Wireless event to feature 'corporate 3G' installations
By Guy Kewney, Newswireless.net
Published Tuesday 16th May 2006 10:42 GMT
Missing (strangely) from this week's Wireless Event (http://www.thewirelessevent.com/) in London's Olympia exhibition centre will be Picochip, which is preparing to astonish the world with a home 3G base station. But corporate versions will be on show, and the news will be a big blow to Wi-Fi fans.

BT has announced its "convergence" plans for "son of Fusion", which was an experiment using Bluetooth as a local wireless system to boost coverage.

The new BT plan was revealed by Steve Evans, BT's wireless broadband chief, who told Communications News "We are planning a major initiative in the larger enterprise space. Commercial launch will be in early 2007, with beta customers towards the back end of this year."

But the problem with Wi-Fi in a cellphone is a simple one: it's a big battery-killer and makes for bigger, clunkier phones. It's also more costly to put both Wi-Fi and 3G radios in a device - so phone operators and makers are getting together to try to find a better solution - and they think picocell WCDMA is the answer.
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