Sprint Nextel gets Nokia for their WiMAX mobile broadband network

US based mobile service provider Sprint Nextel has now roped in Nokia to build their WiMAX mobile broadband network around the U.S.

Nokia is the world’s largest maker of mobile phone devices and also a major player in mobile network deployment market.

They would be providing infrastructure and client hardware for the high-speed network. Nokia joins the other companies which are part of the project including Intel, Samsung Electronics and Motorola.

Sprint hopes to build this WiMAX network to compliment their 3G network. Nokia would also be supplying supply network gear, including its Nokia Flexi WiMAX base transceiver stations. They would further develop and market mobile devices including multimedia computers and Internet tablets.

Sprint said in a statement that after the network is built and deployed, customers would be able to use WiMAX on a broad range of devices in addition to notebook PCs.