Wi-Fi Handbook 
Subtitle: Building 802.11b Wireless Networks
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Published: April 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780071412513
Subjects: Communications engineering / telecommunications; Computer Communications & Networking; Technological innovations; Internet - General; Computers - Communications / Networking; Telecommunications; Computers; Standards; Computer Books: Integrated Systems; Networking - Wide Area Networks (WANs); Internet service providers; Computers / Networking / Wide Area Networks (WANs); Computers-Internet - General; Technology / Telecommunications; Technology-Telecommunications; Telecommunication; United States; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; Networking - Local Area Networks (LANs); IEEE 802.11 (Standard)
First sentence: In the late 1990s, the telecommunications boom went bust because new market entrants, known as Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs), were forced to compete with Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs) on the same financial terms of the incumbents.