BARCELONA (WiMAX Day). The WiMAX Forum announced yesterday that 28 mobile WiMAX products in the 2.3 GHz and 2.5 GHz frequency bands had been submitted for WiMAX Forum certification since late 2007, and that it plans to expand the WiMAX Forum product development roadmap for mobile WiMAX certification in the 700 MHz frequency band.

WiMAX Forum President Ron Resnick made both of these announcements during a media luncheon at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. “With more than 260 commercial WiMAX deployments rolled-out on a global basis, WiMAX technology is the only commercially available OFDMA-based wireless technology today [able] to support the rapid expansion of mobile broadband Internet access, and the broad proliferation of the open Internet concept,” said Resnick.

The first mobile WiMAX products are expected to achieve the WiMAX Forum Certified seal of approval in Q2 2008 and to reach the market later this year. In addition, the WiMAX Forum forecasts that more than 950 products will undergo mobile WiMAX certification testing by 2011. This  represents an influx of new consumer devices and infrastructure equipment to support continued rapid WiMAX user adoption in the 2.3
GHz, 2.5 GHz, and 3.5 GHz frequency bands.