Mobile Handsets with WiMax Capability

As mobile WiMax has developed, a few phones have started to be released that offer this type of technology. For example, the new Nokia 810 is WiMax-enabled. The Samsung SPH-P9000 Deluxe was also released with WiMax capability. Several other phones are currently in the works and are expected on the market within the next year or two in order to accommodate the growing interest that people have in mobile WiMax.

People who are purchasing these new mobile WiMax handsets need to have networks in which these phones work if they’re going to be of any use. There are over 350 different WiMax trials and / or deployments going on around the world today. In the U.S., the first WiMax networks were launched in 2007 under the name BridgeMaxx which has networks set up in several states today. The big news in the U.S. is a plan for Clearwire to launch a massive WiMax network for use specifically by mobile phone users. In the UK, there have been transit-based WiMax deployments such as that on the London to Brighton railway line; BT also plans WiMax developments there.