Reuters reports today that Sprint has selected Nokia as a "key infrastructure and consumer electronics device provider for its wimax mobile broadband network in the United States."

"Sprint is planning to start its WiMax network service in trial markets by the end of 2007, and is planning what would be the largest network in the world, covering at least 100 million people by end-2008," the article states. "Nokia and Sprint will also jointly develop and market WiMax-enabled mobile devices in significant volumes including multimedia computers and Internet tablets, while working together on developing mobile services."

More here from Red Herring and here from TechWeb.

Nokia's press release is here.