Thirteen service providers worldwide are currently deploying the first fixed WiMAX systems. These systems are based on Intel’s WiMAX technologies, providing high-speed broadband access for businesses and households from Germany to Guatemala.
Eleven other service providers are finalizing preparations to officially launch WiMAX networks using Intel technology by the end of this year.
Based on the successes of WiMAX trials worldwide, service providers are now fully deploying commercial services of this technology in cities, neighborhoods, and rural areas.
WiMAX enables broadband wireless networks to reach previously inaccessible areas or areas that required significant costs to access.
“As WiMAX receives strong momentum for full deployment, households and businesses will soon enjoy the ease and power of cost-effective wireless connectivity,” stated Scott Richardson, General Manager of Intel’s Broadband Wireless Division.
In collaboration with Intel and using devices based on the Intel® PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface, commercial networks have already been deployed by service providers including 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 deployed networks will support a variety of use cases, from basic high-speed access services for households to Internet telephony, business connectivity, and support for schools and government offices.
Additionally, several other service providers are in the process of deploying WiMAX networks, which are expected to be completed and operational by the end of this 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), Taiwan Fixed Networks (Taiwan), and VeloCom (Argentina).
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