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James Harper, senior manager of technology marketing at Nokia, talked up their LTE plans in Texas recently, much to the chagrin of Sprint and their hopes for a successful WiMAX network.
“WiMAX has some place in the market, but we do believe it’s a niche play,” Harper says.
Some think Verizon is the one who will host Nokia’s first LTE handset which due to land sometime in 2010, the generally-accepted dawn of 4G, but don’t rule out AT&T; they have plans for an LTE network in 2012, which will doubtlessly host a few 4G Nokias. We still have a year to wait until we see how this all unfolds, but for the time being, Nokia has chosen their side.
[via GigaOm]
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