Nokia to Ship WiMax Phone in Early 2008

NEWS IN BRIEF Nokia will move forward with WiMax in 2008, as it begins to rollout handsets compatible with the technology. However, the market for these devices will likely be quite small initially. Only Sprint has committed to use the technology in the US so far, and the company would be competing with Motorola for this small market, as they also committed to ship a WiMax phone next year.

The technology is promising to those carriers looking to deploy high-speed data networks in a much cheaper fashion. Studies show that WiMax services could be offered at 10 percent the cost of standard wireless data technologies.