On brighter notes, Powell hailed the Wi-Fi boom as an entirely unplanned offshoot of federal decisions not to bother with certain chunks of the public airwaves, in this case the 800 band. "The government threw out that unlicensed bandwidth because they thought it was garbage; they though it was the domain of baby monitors, microwave ovens and little remote-control cars," he said. The Wi-Fi boom "is teaching the government a lot about what you can do with a chunk of spectrum where we aren't the arbiter of what can be done.".

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The agreement includes the $525 million contract announced in March, naming Lucent as a key supplier for Verizon Wireless' high-speed data network. It also replaces the previous agreement the two companies announced in March 2001. Wall Street analysts had expected the renewal of the contract, but they were encouraged by the amount, which could exceed $5 billion over a six-year period. "While a $5 billion contract should normally be a big enough positive for any company, this contract is doubly so for Lucent, in our view," Levy said in his note to investors.