Nortel Networks Corp., the largest North American maker of telephone gear, said it’s betting on the increased adoption of faster wireless Internet technology.
During 2006, the company has more than doubled its investment in a standard known as WiMax, said Peter MacKinnon, a Nortel general manager, in an interview yesterday. He declined to give specific figures. The technology gives phone companies the ability to deliver high-speed services including video over wireless devices.
“Earlier this year, we started looking at the wireless road map and it became clear that we needed to start investing heavily,” said MacKinnon, 44, from the WiMax World USA conference that starts today in Boston. “We’ve redirected resources from across the company.”
This follows on the heals of our report from last month of Intel investing more to promote WiMax. If this trend continues, we will hopefully solve the last mile and offer Wireless Internet easily to the masses where ever they go.
