Industry groups: Home is where the Bluetooth will be

WiMedia Alliance, Bluetooth SIG say they'll cooperate to build hardware with faster version of the wireless technology.

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[jacomo]

What about 802.11n??

Not sure why everyone has stepped over the existing new MIMO standard being finalized.
Why do we need a short range single room device when we can deploy an open standard based multi-room wireless radio like those being proposed by Airgo/Broadcom and Atheros?? If I can operate 802.11n in the 5GHZ spectrum with multiple non overlapping channels why opt for the higher less capable 6GHz+ spectrum.
Is this simply a power/heat and size issue here for these chips??
Where does cost/meg come in here?

Jacomo