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 (
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Glenn Lurie, the executive who led AT&T’s negotiations with Apple for its exclusive U.S. iPhone (
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That's an effort roughly parallel to what supporters of the Clearwire and Xohm WiMAX (
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Verizon (
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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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