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Samsung (News - Alert) Electronics Co. has announced they will team with Sprint Nextel Corp. to introduce a fourth-generation high speed wireless Internet in New York City. Samsung will provide Sprint (News - Alert) Nextel with infrastructure. The initiative is part of wireless provider's plan to launch the network in several U.S. cities based on mobile wireless technology called WiMax.

 

Sprint Nextel had already selected Samsung to provide infrastructure and equipment for similar networks planned for Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Boston and other cities. Sprint will "go for a commercial launch of our service starting in Washington in April of next year," said Barry West, president of the company's WiMax business.

 

Sprint Nextel hopes the network offering fast wireless broadband connections and mobile roaming at high speeds will generate between $2 billion and $2.5 billion in revenue.

 

"New York is an important milestone for Samsung as we continue to expand the deployment of (WiMax) technology around the world," Choi Gee-sung, president of Samsung's telecommunication network business, said in the statement.

 

According to a report from The Associated Press, Sprint Nextel will invest $5 billion through 2010 on the WiMax network. The company has also teamed up with Clearwire Corp. to help build a WiMax network to cut the company's expense by up to 70 percent.

 

Apart from Samsung and Clearwire, U.S. companies Intel Corp. and Motorola (News - Alert) Inc. are cooperating with Sprint Nextel to commercialize the technology in the United States.

 

 

 

 

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