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Karen Brown
Reports that AT&T Corp.'s Project Angel has fallen from grace and will be sent to the telecommunications hereafter are greatly exaggerated, according to Ken Woo, a spokesman for the company's wireless group.
Announced in early 1997 by then-AT&T CEO John Walter, Project Angel is a proprietary technology for fixed wireless data transmission delivering four lines of voice and always-on Internet access with data speeds up to 384 Kilobits per second (Kbps). The technology is proprietary, and specifics about its transmission method have not been released.
Rumors have been circulating for some time that the project was plagued by technical problems and concerns it would not be economically viable. Reports were AT&T Chairman C. Michael Armstrong had issued a December deadline to determine if Project Angel should take flight at all.
Woo said he has read the articles, too, but he also says they are not accurate. He insists Project Angel has always been under strict deadlines, but it is far from in trouble.
"The fact of the matter is we are in market trials in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and if there are no further glitches it will go into commercial release possibly early next year," he said.
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