Sprint to Offer WiMAX-Enabled Linux Tablet | Linux Today

Sprint to Offer WiMAX-Enabled Linux Tablet

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 8, 2007

“Sprint will offer a Mobile WiMAX-enabled version of Nokia’s
N800 Internet Tablet to North American customers next year,
LinuxDevices has learned. The new device will support Sprint’s
grand scheme of making WiMAX-based 4G wireless services available
to over 100 million people during 2008.

“Sprint in August of 2006 announced plans to develop and deploy
‘the first fourth generation (4G) nationwide broadband mobile
network,’ and said that it had selected Mobile WiMAX (aka IEEE
802.16e-2005) as the wireless technology for the deployment…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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