InfoWorld's Sumner Lemon reports that Samsung has already shipped mobile WiMax equipment to one Chinese customer, and is in talks with a second.

"I cannot disclose any names," says Hwan Woo Chung, vice president of Samsung's Mobile WiMax Group. "You will see early next year what will happen there."

Chung says the aim isn't to offer a national mobile WiMax network, but to support "special applications" in several provinces.

"Service providers in China today have few options for mobile data services, as the government has yet to issue licenses for 3G (third-generation) mobile services," Lemon writes. "Samsung was one of the first companies to offer mobile WiMax technology, which is capable of downlink speeds up to 10.2 Mbps 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 40 Mbps."