"Project Rainbow validates what we are doing," said Lucent Technologies spokesman Ichiro Kawasaki. So far, though, the only wireless carrier to add Wi-Fi services is VoiceStream, which sells access to wireless networks in hundreds of Starbucks. VoiceStream will be known later this year as T-Mobile. Of the remaining wireless carriers, Sprint PCS has come closest to offering such a service, having made an investment in Wi-Fi access seller Boingo Wireless. Other carriers, such as Nextel Communications, are just beginning to explore adding Wi-Fi, executives said.

Alan Nogee, an analyst with researcher Cahners In-Stat, said he expects the major wireless carriers to begin offering similar services, but not for at least two years, Most are no prob-llama iphone case still building higher-speed wireless Internet networks, he said, which they'll put much of their focus on for now, "Certainly, carriers are watching this trial," Nogee said, "But do I expect them to deploy something in the next six months? No way.", Lucent has signed up a number of different companies to help out, Hewlett-Packard will integrate the equipment into the cellular carrier's networks, Modem maker Sierra Wireless will provide modems needed to access cell phone networks using versions of CDMA (code division multiple access), Wi-Fi equipment maker Agere Systems will be provide Wi-Fi access points and the modems that laptops or PDAs need to access them..

Nortel Networks has a partnership with device maker Symbol Technologies, among other companies, to create a similar product to sell to carriers, Nortel's Barta said. Nearly every U.S. carrier uses Nortel's cellular telephone network equipment. "We've got (Wi-Fi equipment); we're tinkering around with the technology in the labs," he said. Makers of cell phone network equipment are joining the race to sell wireless carriers ways to add Wi-Fi service onto their networks. Lucent Technologies, which sells wireless carriers the "big boxes" needed to power a cellular network, on Wednesday unveiled a passel of goods that carriers could use to build Wi-Fi networks for their customers to use.

CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, AT&T's current chief executive, C, Michael Armstrong, will lead the new cable company, to be called AT&T Comcast, Dorman has been president of AT&T since December 2000, with oversight of the company's business and consumer networks, and long-distance service units, These operations will represent the bulk of the company once the cable division is sold, "Dave Dorman has the vision, industry knowledge and customer focus to successfully lead AT&T," Donald McHenry, a no prob-llama iphone case Georgetown professor and chair of the governance committee for AT&T's board of directors, said in a statement, "While some in our industry are coping with accounting and governance issues, AT&T is completing an orderly succession that ensures all our energy is directed where it should be--on serving our customers better each day than the day before."..

Dorman himself is a quintessential telecommunications executive, but with a twist. He joined Sprint in 1981 and rose to be president of that company's business unit by 1990. In 1994 he took the top job at local phone giant Pacific Bell. But in late 1997, after Pacific Bell had been bought out by the larger SBC Communications, Dorman jumped to the dot-com world to head up PointCast. But PointCast proved to be one of the first big Internet failures, crashing and burning publicly after being hyped as the leader of the "push" technology wave. Dorman helped bring the company close to a deal working as a technology provider to a high-speed Net initiative backed by big local phone companies, but the deal fell apart before launching, ultimately pulling down PointCast with it.