Helsinki, Finland (AHN) - The Finnish handset maker, Nokia, on Wednesday said consumers should expect to see its WiMAX capable mobile devices sometime during 2008. The announcement came as the company rolled out its new WiMAX base station, which the company said will be commercially available for the 2.5 GHz band at the end of 2007 and for 3.5 GHz in the first quarter of 2008.
For now, a computer can connect to a WiMAX fast wireless Internet connection only when it is stationary, but a new mobile version of WiMAX will be available this year.
Nokia's move is pretty much in time since mobile carrier Sprint Nextel last year announced that it intends to roll out a WiMAX network by the fourth quarter of 2007.
Intel, Nokia, Samsung and Motorola all support the open-standard WiMAX as an alternative wireless broadband Internet connection alongside third generation mobile telephony networks, on which Internet access can get squeezed if networks fill up with voice callers.
Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News Staff Writer
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