Can WiMAX devices come together in time for Sprints commercial launch?
I’m wondering if the WiMAX device market will come together by the time Sprint launches commercial WiMAX in Baltimore in September, followed by other commercial deployments in Chicago and Washington, D.C. Intel has revealed that the long-anticipated Centrino 2 mobile platform that it is introducing today won’t include the WiFi (802.11n)/WiMAX module that has been long promised. Instead, that feature will ship later this year, an Intel spokeswoman said. No word on the reason for the delay. Will it ship in time to be incorporated in laptops for Sprint’s commercial launches? And where are some of the key vendor products Sprint, which is merging with Clearwire later this year, expects to launch on its network? Nokia’s enhanced version of the N810, the first standalone WiMAX handheld, has yet to be certified by the WiMAX Forum, which in June announced certification for the 2.5 GHz band, the band Sprint and Clearwire operate in. ZTE, which is supplying USB WiMAX modems for Sprint’s launch, h
