3G Phone Rival Calling Collect

Just as so-called 3G high-speed mobile-phone services are starting to take off in Europe, a new challenge arrives, reports Wired.

Cambridge Silicon Radio, a British company, has launched a range of single-chip Wi-Fi designs aimed at mobile phones and other pocket devices. CSR's $8 UniFi chips would give mobile handsets and handheld gadgets like digital cameras the ability to communicate over public and private Wi-Fi networks. The chips could threaten the high-speed wireless services that the telecom companies offer -- and for which they paid billions in spectrum licenses.

The company claims the UniFi chips are the first true single-chip product aimed specifically at cellular phones."

emily | 11:50 AM | News, Buzz |
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