CHINA UNICOM TO BENEFIT FROM WAPI ENFORCEMENT

AsiaInfo Services, March, 2004

AsiaInfo Services 03-30-2004 China Unicom to Benefit from WAPI Enforcement SHANGHAI, Mar 30, 2004 (SinoCast via COMTEX) -- Wired Authentication and PrivacyInfrastructure (WAPI), a Chinese-controlled Wi-Fi security standard for the safety of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), is stacking up against an international Wi-Fi standard. So those consumers, who have planned to buy Centrino notebooks,now are hesitating, and even many of them will turn to buy China Unicom's CDMA1X Wireless Card (CWC). Dewen Technology Company Ltd., a CWC agent of China Unicom Shanghai Branch (Shanghai Unicom), says that the CWC sales has rapidly increased from 70 to over 150 units since March, and many CWC consumers are wondering whether the rivalship between the two standards will affect...

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