Nokia and Intel push to get WiMAX out this year

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.