Wi-Fi Alliance Launches Wi-Fi ZONE Finder™ Portal Program


Free Program for Qualifying Web Sites Leverages Value of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ Products

Mountain View, CA, March 18, 2004 -/The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- The Wi-Fi Alliance announced today that it is launching a new Web portal program on March 29th to promote public awareness and use of Wi-Fi ZONE™ hot spots around the globe. Partners that join this free program will be able to offer online visitors access to the official Wi-Fi ZONE Finder directory of public hotspot locations that use Wi-Fi CERTIFIED equipment.

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Symbol Technologies Supports EPCglobal IP Agreement

HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.--March 8, 2004-/The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/-Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SBL), The Enterprise Mobility Company™, announced that it has signed the EPCglobal, Inc. Intellectual Property Policy (IPP), cementing its commitment to open standards for the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in emerging supply chain applications.

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Top operators and vendors create alliance to move UMTS TDD standard forward

Cannes, France, Feb 26, 2004 -/The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- A new alliance was launched at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes to accelerate the growing success of UMTS TDD as the leading standard for delivering wide-area wireless broadband and other high-speed packet based services.

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ITU Expands Partnership with Waseda University, Japan

Geneva, 18 February 2004 /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- The International Telecommunication Union and Waseda University of Tokyo, Japan have established a research centre at the ITU-Waseda ICT Centre to support work in the area of radiocommunications, particularly in the fields of radiofrequency spectrum, digital broadcasting, mobile services and regulatory issues.

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Telecommunications Development Advisory Group(TDAG) elected Professor David Mellor of the United Kingdom as its Chairman

Geneva, 6 February 2004 /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- The ninth Telecommunication Development Advisory Group (TDAG) met in Geneva, 21–23 January 2004, and elected Professor David P. Mellor from United Kingdom as its Chairman. The TDAG provides advice to the director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau on priorities and strategies in regards to the implementation of the operational plan of the ITU Development Sector.

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Intel and Motorola join board of directors; enhance openness of MIPI's interface standards

February 6, 2004 /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- The Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance, the industry initiative established to define and promote open standards for interfaces to mobile application processors, announced this week that the four founding members have been joined by 35 new members, including the addition of Intel and Motorola to the board of directors.

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Motorola and GIGA STREAM to announce successful Interoperability Test

Mobile switching equipment from Motorola interoperates perfectly with the Universal Navigation Switch (UNS®)


6th February, 2004 /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- GIGA STREAM is announcing the successful completion of its interoperability tests with Motorola’s mobile switching equipment. The tests proved the interoperability with Radio Access Networks to core mobile switching equipment, which underlined the efficient and flexible implementation of GIGA STREAM’s Universal Navigation Switch (UNS).

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MultiMediaCard SPECIFICATION VERSION 4.0 IS RELEASED

Cupertino, CA, February 3, 2004 /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- Version 4.0 of the MultiMediaCard specification, offering wider bus width, dual voltage operation and the highest transfer speeds available, was introduced by the MultiMediaCard Association (MMCA), a standards organization that promotes the worldwide adoption of MultiMediaCards (MMCs).

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ITU, India and UPU Partnership Helps Bhutan Bridge the Digital Divide

Geneva, /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- The Government of India, in partnership with two UN agencies, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU), will help boost the delivery of e-post services to citizens in the least accessible parts of its south Asian neighbour, Bhutan with a package of equipment, satellite capacity and training resources worth some USD 450,000. The resulting e-post service will allow people without computers in remote areas to send e-mail between post offices for printing and delivery.

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NEW CDMA2000® 1X SOLUTION NOW SAMPLING FROM TEXAS INSTRUMENTS AND STMICROELECTRONICS

Open, Modular CDMA Solution Enables Differentiation, Innovation and Scalability That Will Lower System Costs

DALLAS and GENEVA, (Dec. 5, 2003) /The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) (ST) and Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) (TI) have joined their complementary areas of proven expertise to create a flexible and open solution supporting the cdma2000® 1X standard for wireless communications. Utilizing components from the wireless portfolios of both companies, the new cdma2000 1X solution provides a hardware and software platform that simplifies design and speeds time-to-market while reducing power consumption, component count, board space and bill of materials (BOM) costs for handset manufacturers.

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