Reuters reports today that Nokia has announced plans to start selling WiMax phones in early 2008.

"Nokia's closest rival in the handset market, U.S. based Motorola, also plans to bring its first WiMax-enabled mobile phone to the market in 2008," the article states. "Intel, Nokia, Samsung and Motorola all support the open-standard WiMax as an alternative wireless broadband Internet connection alongside third generation mobile telephony networks, on which Internet access can be slowed if networks fill up with voice callers."

As Nokia's press release puts it, "The combination of WiMax broadband technology and Web 2.0 services offers people an enriched high-speed Internet experience free from the desktop PC. Nokia plans to bring its first WiMax-enabled mobile device to market in early 2008."