Google Inc. has made its biggest move yet on the U.S. mobile Web market by signing a deal with Sprint Nextel Corp. that positions the Internet company to build services to run on Sprint's planned WiMAX high-speed wireless network.
The two companies said Thursday that Google (Charts, Fortune 500) will provide its Internet search service for a Web portal that Sprint (Charts, Fortune 500) is developing for the new WiMAX network. The gateway to various Web services will be ready in April 2008.
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