This was little more than rumor a few weeks ago, but it was confirmed on Friday -- Ovum notes that Telecom Italia and Samsung Electronics have announced plans to launch WiBro (the Korean version of WiMAX) in italy in the first quarter of 2007. This is part of a larger push for WiBro technology worldwide -- Samsung also has plans in place to provide WiBro solutions to KDDI in Japan, Sprint Nextel in the US, BT in the UK, TVA in Brazil and Omnivision in Venezula.