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WiMax death in the US is another bad rumor. Chicago and two other markets will be wired before the end of the year, That^ card was just demo-ed by Motorola 3 weeks ago and all reports I've heard say WiMAX rocks...

Posted Sep 26th 2007 2:43PM by Chris Ziegler
Filed under: Wireless

Part of the WiMAX World festivities taking place this week, Motorola was on hand in Chicago last night to demonstrate fragments of the Mobile WiMAX build-out it's been throwing together to support the upcoming launch of Sprint's Xohm service. A leisurely cruise took curious onlookers down the Chicago River while Moto demonstrated a variety of WiMAX-friendly goodies like VoIP and streaming video, with handoffs flawlessly (apparently) transitioning the signal from access point to access point amongst canyons of skyscrapers, steel, and cement. The company also took its demo onto the "streets along the Chicago River while driving at speeds beyond 50 mph," a clear violation of local traffic laws, so we're hoping Moto's got some money socked away in its meager coffers to pony up some fines. Anyway, if all goes well, the demos foretell a late '07 soft launch of Xohm's Chicago network, with a commercial release in April of next year.
I've also seen rumors on the net (some here) that say that since Sprints Forsee got his walking papers, Sprint is re-thinking their involvement....

Sprint is well past the point of no return on this with dry ink on partnership agreements and third party contracts. Nokia is one of those partners.

There is a WiMAX N*** slated for 2008 and offered by Sprint. No one from Nokia or Sprint has stated otherwise.

Until then anything else is just conjecture and unsupported rumor.

Aug. 07, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO -- 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...

... Jaaksi commented that news of a WiMAX-enabled Nokia Web tablet was already fairly widely distributed on the Maemo mailing list and other places. He said the new device would likely get more publicity during the process of FCC approval. However, he declined to announce any timeframe for when that might happen, in deference to Sprint...