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Runner-up wireless standard tries for phone market.

May 30, 2002

USA Today It also returns HomeRF to an effort it began as early as 1998 — to convince consumers that advanced telephone services made HomeRF products worth buying, said Kurt Scherf, the vice president of research at Park Associates, a residential technology market research firm.

"They've struggled to find traction on whatever marketing message they've pushed," Scherf said. "They're simply desperate to get traction wherever they can get it."

.... "I think it's really hard for the consumer — I think it's hard for me as an analyst — to figure out what the benefit is of merging a voice and data application in the home right now," Parks Associates' Scherf said.

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