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Sprint in talks with Intel for Wimax embedded PCs

TYSONS CORNER, Virginia
Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:03pm EDT

TYSONS CORNER, Virginia (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel is in talks with chip maker Intel Corp and computer makers about developing computers that have embedded connections to WiMax, an emerging high-speed wireless technology, a top executive for Sprint said on Thursday.

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"I'm expecting a lot of it to be embedded by 2010," said Sprint wireless-broadband executive Barry West. He expects most computer access to WiMax will be from computers with embedded WiMax rather than laptops using separate wireless modems.

(Reporting by Sinead Carew)
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