Is Google going wireless? The search giant has clubbed up with Sprint Nextel in a WiMax deal to develop a new mobile internet portal to provide sophisticated web search and social networking services to the customers. However, the financial details of the deal are not revealed by the companies.
According to the recent agreement, Google will provide its email, chatting, social networking, calendaring and other such services to Sprint customers next year, who use company’s wireless broadband network.
Sprint Nextel would extend its open standard APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for programmers to make Google Web services accessible on WiMax-supported devices such as NBs and phones.
The WiMax service will be tested in Washington and Baltimore by the end of this year and large-scale rollout next year.
