Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S - message board) has named Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK - message board) as the fourth major supplier for its planned nationwide WiMax network; once again picking a vendor that can cover both the infrastructure and device side of the house for this new wireless broadband technology.
Nokia will supply mobile WiMax infrastructure "to be built out in 2007" for launch in 2008, a Sprint spokesman tells Unstrung. Meanwhile, the Finnish vendor will go beyond its usual cellphone and smartphone portfolio for initial WiMax devices, providing Sprint with "multimedia computers and web tablets" to exploit the broadband capabilities of WiMax.
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