News Spotlight on March 2007

Cingular To Become AT&T

By the time you read this you’ll probably have noticed an advertisement announcing that Cingular is becoming the new AT&T. These ads are part of a marketing campaign that will stretch well into 2007 as AT&T gradually rebrands Cingular Wireless devices and services into AT&T Wireless. This follows AT&T’s $86 billion acquisition of BellSouth, which owned the Cingular brand.

Preparing For Faster Wireless

The long-awaited 802.11n, the Wi-Fi specification designed to improve on the current 802.11a/b/g, is getting closer to reality. The IEEE’s (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Task Group N recently approved 802.11n Draft 2.0, leading the way for full approval of the standard in 2008. Unlike underperforming “pre-N” and “Draft-N” products based on Draft 1.0, final 802.11n products should offer four times the speed of 802.11a/b/g and much greater range.