January 1, 2000

Heavyweights promise wireless Internet

Cisco, along with partners including Broadcom, Motorola, and Texas Instruments, is delivering terrestrial wireless Internet links using VOFDM (Vector Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing). Meanwhile Qualcomm has plotted a CDMA-based cellular roadmap that sees data service for mobile users climb from 115 kbits/sec today, to 638 kbits/sec in 2001, and to 2 Mbits/sec by 2003.