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100+ New Mobile WiMAX Products Soon to Be Revealed

David Meyer at CNetnews.com reports that the WiMAX Forum is announcing in excess of 100 new mobile WiMAX products that are in the pipeline for certification.

The announcement could be good news for the major players backing Mobile WiMax in a race against LTE (Long-Term-Evolution), the rival 3G network standard. The fact that LTE has not yet been standardized, has not slowed down chipmaker NXP and others from announcing plans to have an “LTE-compatible modem” ready for testing in the first half of 2009.

“According to the WiMax Forum, more than 100 mobile WiMax products will be certified by the year’s end, with more than 1,000 certified by 2011. This will also include products designed to work at the 3.5GHz frequency, and the forum said on Tuesday that it would start accepting certification applications for such products in the third quarter of this year, with the goal of completing certification by the end of the year.”

Whether you define it as, 3G, 4G, Wi-FI or WiMAX, nascent mobile technology is so abundant that it all overlaps and seems to just keep getting better for the rugged wireless & mobile niche.

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