SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 9, 2005 – Thirteen carriers from around
the world are now deploying the world’s first fixed WiMAX networks
based on Intel Corporation WiMAX technologies, delivering high-speed
broadband access to businesses and residences from Germany to
Guatemala. Eleven more carriers are preparing to deploy additional
Intel-based WiMAX networks by year’s end.
Building on the success of WiMAX trials worldwide, carriers are now
rolling out full commercial deployments in cities as well as suburban
and rural communities, allowing broadband wireless networks to reach
locations where previously they were either impossible or too costly
for carriers to pursue.
“As WiMAX gains momentum in full deployments, homes and businesses
gain the ease and power of cost-effective wireless networking,” said
Scott Richardson, general manager of Intel’s Broadband Wireless
Division. “We are now delivering the promise of WiMAX – high-speed,
cost-effective wireless broadband access – to businesses and consumers
in cities and suburbs around the world.”
In collaboration with Intel, and using equipment based on the Intel
PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface, commercial networks have now
been deployed by the following carriers: Altitude Telecom* (France),
AXTEL* (Mexico), BEC Telecom, S.A.* (Dominican Republic), Dedicado*
(Uruguay), Globe/Innove* (Philippines), Iberbanda (Spain), Irish
Broadband* (Ireland), SferaNET* (Poland), Mikkelin Puhelin Oyj*
 and Savonlinnan Puhelin Oy* (Finland), Telgua* (Guatemala),
Ukrainian High Technologies* (Ukraine), and WiMAX Telecom* (Austria and
Slovakia).
These deployments support a range of uses, from basic high-speed
access for homes to Internet telephony, business connectivity and
support for schools and government offices. For example:
- Voice over IP (VoIP) services are being offered
by BEC Telecom beginning in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and
spreading to the rest of the country, while WiMAX Telecom is offering
VoIP services to home users in Burganland, Austria.
- Residential
and small business users now have access to high-speed Internet, from
AXTEL in Monterey, Mexico and Dedicado in Montevideo, Uruguay to
Globe/Innove in Cavite, Philippines and Iberbanda in Andalusia and
Catalonia, Spain.
- Schools and government offices can now
benefit from cost-effective, high-speed access in areas including
Dublin, Ireland, through a contract with Irish Broadband, and in
southern Poland, where SferaNet is offering WiMAX services to public
safety, local government offices and schools.
In addition, several carriers are in the process of deploying WiMAX
networks that are expected to be up and running by the end of the year,
including: Americatel Peru S.A.* (Peru), Call Plus* (New Zealand),
Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd.* (Taiwan), DBD Deutsched Breitband Dienste
GmbH* (Germany), Digicel* (Caribbean), Entel* (Chile), Ertach*
(Argentina), Integrated Telecom Company* (Saudi Arabia), Next Mobile*
(Philippines), and Taiwan Fixed Networks* (Taiwan) and VeloCom*
(Argentina).
The new WiMAX networks will deliver broadband services to consumers,
businesses, schools and public offices, using Intel-based customer
premises equipment from Airspan*, Alcatel*, Alvarion* and Redline
Communications*
These full deployments build upon growing momentum toward widespread
WiMAX availability, including a pledge by the government of Taiwan to
invest NT$37 billion [US$1.12 billion] on mobile initiatives, including
WiMAX, and Intel’s Asian Broadband Campaign, an initiative in which
Intel is working with governments, telecommunications regulators,
education, health and agriculture public sector agencies and carriers
to spur WiMAX development in Southeast Asia.
Source: Intel Press Release
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