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Nokia and Intel push to get WiMAX out this year

Mobile phone and network company Nokia and chip giant Intel said on Friday they would step up their efforts and collaboration to make WiMAX a new standard in mobile broadband Internet access.

Intel has been the driving force behind WiMAX, touting it as the long-distance broadband Internet sibling of Wi-Fi which it turned into a success with its Centrino chipsets for laptops.

The support of Nokia, which has not always been a WiMAX believer, shows that the world's biggest mobile phone maker and one of the leading wireless networks makers also sees a future.

Interestingly, Nokia sees WiMAX demand from mobile telecoms operators, for which the Finnish firm is already building third generation mobile phone networks with, also, fast Web access.

Reuters Technology News

Posted by | Sat, Jun 11, 2005 - 11:37 AM