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Next-Gen Service Provider: October 15, 2008 eNewsletter
October 15, 2008

AT&T Pushes to Extend Mobility Feature

By Gary Kim, Contributing Editor

Putting its money where its mouth is, AT&T has created a new business unit to promote mobile communications capability in devices ranging from computers and digital cameras to car-navigation and entertainment systems, says the Reuters (News - Alert) news agency.


 
Glenn Lurie, the executive who led AT&T’s negotiations with Apple for its exclusive U.S. iPhone (News - Alert) deal, will now work on introducing wireless links in devices other than mobile phones.
 
That's an effort roughly parallel to what supporters of the Clearwire and Xohm WiMAX (News - Alert) networks also are pursuing: figuring out ways to encourage mobile broadband applications all sorts of devices might be able to take advantage of.
 
Verizon (News - Alert), for its part, is working on a variety of new machine-to-machine applications that use the broadband network for instrumentation and telemetry applications.
 
Besides heading the emerging devices unit, Lurie will continue to run the company's national distribution business.
 
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Gary Kim (News - Alert) is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Gary's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Michelle Robart

(source: http://internetcommunications.tmcnet.com/topics/broadband-mobile/articles/42992-att-pushes-extend-mobility-feature.htm)



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