Wireless offers a way ... for them to immediately jump into the new world in terms of the information economy.

The only event that consumers can count on to guarantee compatibility is W-Fi Alliance certification.

What we have here is a group of silicon companies who want to try to force the standard to be what they are already trying to build. We don't think that's in the interest of standards process or consumer.

There are some irresponsible claims out there. A group of silicon vendors wanted to halt after draft one.

The JP was not sanctioned to endorse a specification developed in private by a handful of silicon companies, ... The difference is the fact that [EWC] agreed to create silicon, and they've said they will create silicon and push that silicon interoperability specification regardless of what happens in 802.11n.