Samsung Electronics has been awarded with the world’s first WiMAX Forum Wave2 certification for both ‘Base Station’ and ‘Mobile Station’ which support the 2.5GHz band, at the WiMAX Forum Global Congress 2008 in Amsterdam.

The mobile WiMAX certified products will be commercially used in the Sprint-Nextel mobile WiMAX service later this year, said the company.
 
Mobile WiMAX wave2 products come with a number of new features including multi-in multi-out (MIMO) and smart antenna. These features enable very fast data rate, up to 37Mbps for downlink and 10Mbps for uplink, among currently available mobile technologies in service. At this speed, users can download 3MB MP3 music files within 0.7 seconds and 700MB movie files in less than three minutes.
 
“I am confident in mobile WiMAX as one of the most promising solutions for mobile broadband services. This important milestone exhibits the technology is ready and mature and Samsung will accelerate the commercialization with in the global market to open new era of mobile broadband world,” said Geesung Choi, president of telecommunication business, Samsung.
 
Samsung’s mobile WiMAX wave2 solutions are expected to be commercially available through KT and SKT in South Korea later this year and UQ Communications in Japan next summer. - TradeArabia News Service