4G technologies to fuel merging of mobile devices: WiMAX provider

Fourth-generation wireless technologies will yield a merging among mobile devices, the CEO and president of a Rhode Island-based fixed WiMAX provider told TMCnet.

According to Jeff Thompson (News - Alert) of Towerstream – a company that delivers high-speed Internet access to businesses in nine U.S. markets, including the greater Providence area where the company is based – with theiPhone ( News - Alert) and iPod touch and similar devices, the industry already is seeing some merging with the introduction of applications “for everything from gaming to GPS...”