Tech heavyweights form new company to provide nationwide wireless internet access

AT&T, Intel and IBM have announced that they are combining their technologies and capabilities to create a new company, Cometa Networks, that will provide high-speed wireless Internet access nationwide. The company will work with major national and regional retail chains, hotels, universities and real estate firms to deploy thousands of wireless “hot spots,” which will utilize WiFi technology — also called 802.11, the technology Apple’s AirPort is based on.

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