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Company provides network management for several big U.S. chains including Four Seasons Hotels and McDonald's.

Local initiatives to develop services based on the wireless networking technology called wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) have been relegated to the freezer. After a grand takeoff in June, Wi-Fi services came crashing down this month after government regulators shot it down.

The already-considerable buzz surrounding public wireless LAN services has increased dramatically with the launch of Cometa Networks two weeks ago by industry bigwigs Intel Corp., AT&T Corp. and IBM Corp.

Pockets of wireless connectivity abound, making mobile and remote work easier than ever. The trouble is with today's wealth of wireless networks - mobile 2.5G WANs, satellite, broadband wireless last-mile Internet access, Bluetooth personal-area networks, and paging and messaging services - in various stages of standardization and deployment, and applications overlap, make crafting an integrated wireless network plan a tough task.