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The report said the move might delay the adoption of a technology that could compete with WiMAX, which Intel had been promoting to provide long-range broadband access for laptop computers and other devices.
The report said the institute's standards board last week disclosed that it had suspended activities of the so-called 802.20 working group, which reviewed technologies that could provide faster high-speed Internet access than most mobile phones.
In January, the group narrowed its consideration to a joint technology proposal from Qualcomm and
The Reuters report said Intel and some other WiMAX backers, including