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Sprint, Google Partner on WiMAX For Mobile Web

Live in Washington, Baltimore or Chicago? If so, you will likely be one of the firsts to have access to a new highspeed wireless WiMax network offered by Sprint and Google. The rest of us, would have to wait until sometime in 2008.

WiMax is touted as the next great option to deliver high speed Internet Access to the mobile world.

Sprint has a vision for the next generation of on-the-go Web surfing, and it has nothing to do with cellphones or WiFi-powered coffee shops.

The Reston wireless provider, which now refers to itself as a mobile-broadband pioneer, is placing bets on a souped-upwireless technology called WiMax and has enlisted the help of Google as a first partner to spark excitement around the forthcoming launch.

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