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...phone small enough to use outside a car, forever changing the way the world lives and works. But today, some think this wry, lively elder statesman, now 75, is working to undermine the very mobile behemoths he helped create. That's because he's the founder and chairman of ArrayComm, a San Jose, California, company that has radically redesigned the antennae that send cellular signals to handsets - it may be a better product, but it's also a threat to some hundreds of billions of dollars invested by the mobile giants. He is overhauling the way wireless signals travel, ushering...
...Cooper is one of the World Economic Forum's 2005 Technology Pioneers who are helping the next generation of broadband and portable communications conquer the world. Along with other upstarts like Britain's Frontier Silicon, Israel's Wisair and Cornice from the U.S., ArrayComm is working to improve technologies already in use - like wi-fi and 3G - in order to give people wire-free access to e-mail and the Internet, and to provide them with cheap phone calls in the U.S., Europe, China and Korea, among other places. Between the four of them, they're pretty much covering...
...while the world waits for WiMAX, wireless operators in Sydney, Johannesburg, Paris and the Bay Area are already deploying ArrayComm's new antenna design, to the dismay of mobile carriers. Conventional mobile antennae, Cooper says, "are really just a bunch of sticks - we make them smart.'' Where conventional masts send out signals in circular arcs - a process that wastes transmission power because only the signals that hit a phone are used - an ArrayComm antenna transmits signals in a straight line, targeting a particular phone that it recognizes using specialized software. Cooper says ArrayComm's software, which resides in computers...
...mobile-phone operators rushing to embrace ArrayComm's technology? Not exactly. Many Western mobile operators, such as Vodafone and T-Mobile, have invested billions of dollars and euros - over $100 billion alone just to buy government licenses - in 3G phone systems that use conventional arc designs. As operators struggle to make those four-year-old investments pay off, they're not about to switch to ArrayComm. Although ArrayComm was able to license its technology to Chinese and Japanese operators that deploy a more compatible mobile-phone system, Western operators have declined. So ArrayComm is selling to wireless Internet providers like...
...reality." Of course, the biggest test for all the Pioneers is: Will people actually use their technology? There are, for instance, at least half a dozen technologies vying to become the next-gen wi-fi, and only one will win. Take it from Cooper, the grand old man of ArrayComm, who says, "everything takes longer than you think, because people take time to change.'' But then, he notes, people balked at the PC and the cell phone...
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