Microsoft Wins OK for Xbox Wireless Adapter
Fri August 29, 2003 01:21 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O has won federal approval for a wireless adapter for its Xbox video game console that allows players to connect to the Internet without cabling, according to a posting on a regulatory Web site.
The site for the Office of Engineering and Technology of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission shows that approval for the unit was granted late on Thursday.
A Microsoft spokeswoman was not immediately available to comment on the device, its cost or its availability.
But the approval on the federal office's site includes a number of exhibits, among them internal and external photographs of the device, as well as the user's manual that would presumably ship with the product.
The unit shown is black, with an antenna on the right side and the green "XBOX" logo stamped on its top. It also has a stamp that says "54 Mbps," a common reference to the wireless standard for speeds of 54 megabits per second.
The application for the device's authorization, also posted on the FCC site, listed Advance Data Technology Corp. of Taiwan as the technical contact.
The documents did not list any pricing details. A number of other companies, including the Linksys unit of Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO.O , make and market wireless adapters to connect online-enabled game consoles to the Internet. Those adapters generally sell for around $100.
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