Samsung Electronics has already shipped mobile WiMax equipment to one customer in China and is in talks with a second customer about supplying similar equipment, a company executive said Monday.“I cannot disclose any names,” said Hwan Woo Chung, a vice president at Samsung’s Mobile WiMax Group, speaking at a conference in Singapore. “You will see early next year what will happen there.”The first customer will not roll out a national mobile WiMax network, instead using the technology for “special applications” in several provinces, Chung said, declining to comment further on the deal. Mobile WiMax is currently used to provide commercial services in South Korea and is being rolled out elsewhere.Service providers in China today have few options for mobile data services, as the government has yet to issue licenses for third-generation mobile services. Samsung was one of the first companies to offer mobile WiMax technology, which is capable of downlink speeds up to 10.2Mbps while traveling at 120 kilometers per hour (75 miles per hour). By the third quarter of next year, Samsung expects to push downlink speeds higher, to a maximum of nearly 40Mbps.Samsung signed more than 20 contracts for mobile WiMax trial networks during 2006, and has dozens more under negotiation, Chung said. -Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service (Singapore Bureau)Related Links: Sprint’s Next Leap in Wireless: WiMax Intel Brings WiMax ‘Digital City’ to Amazon IslandCheck out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content BrandPost The future of trust—no more playing catch up Broadcom: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT By Eric Chien, Director of Security Response, Symantec Enterprise Division, Broadcom Mar 31, 2023 5 mins Security BrandPost TCS gives Blackhawk Network an edge with Microsoft Cloud In this case study, Blackhawk Network’s Cara Renfroe joins Tata Consultancy Services’ Rakesh Kumar and Microsoft’s Nilendu Pattanaik to explain how TCS transformed the gift card company’s customer engagement and global operati By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 1 min Financial Services Industry Cloud Computing IT Leadership BrandPost How TCS pioneered the ‘borderless workspace’ with Microsoft 365 Microsoft’s modern workplace solution proved a perfect fit for improving productivity and collaboration, while maintaining security of systems and data. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 1 min Financial Services Industry Microsoft Cloud Computing BrandPost Supply chain decarbonization: The missing link to net zero By improving the quality of global supply chain data, enterprises can better measure their true carbon footprint and make progress toward a net-zero business ecosystem. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 2 mins Retail Industry Supply Chain Green IT Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe