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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/27/wimax_poliltics/
Enemies dig in for WiMAX-on-cell phone trench war  Can standards
committee redeem its reputation?  By Guy Kewney  Posted in
Mobile, 27th December 2006 12:36 GMT                 But behind
the politics, there lurk some genuine technical issues. Prime is
the question of cellular hand-off.  This is - according to the
Committee itself - not a problem. David Brunnen Managing
Director of ABFL Groupe Intellex picked up on a comment piece I
wrote recently, suggesting that it was a problem; and Brunnen
fiercely denied it, with evidence: "You may have picked up the
story that the recent Mobi commercial launch in Beirut means
that The Lebanon is now catching up fast – fully mobile IP
access indoors and out and on the move," he told NewsWireless.
He continued: "The technology platform for this is the same
802.20 candidate as used commercially (not trials) in countries
such as Australia, South Africa, and Norway and has already been
standardised by A