Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Cisco/Moto Cellular/WiFi Deal is Dead/Gone

Camen Nobel writes on Light Reading:

A cellular/WiFi roaming technology partnership between Cisco Systems Inc. and Motorola Inc. has gone the way of the dodo. And the culprit could be carrier reluctance to buy in to some vendor fixed/mobile convergence ideas.

Last July, the two companies announced plans to deliver "a seamless enterprise mobility solution that will include Wireless Local Area Networking (WLAN) Internet Protocol (IP) telephony and cellular phone technologies."

But Motorola confirmed late Tuesday that it quietly called the deal off late last month, blaming initial carrier uncertainty about the companies' plans.

More here.

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