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International Issue: August 2006
Global News Analysis
Can mobile WiMAX repay vendors’ faith?
by Iain Morris
Intel and Motorola have dramatically upped the mobile WiMAX ante. Last month — through their respective venture capital arms — they invested a jaw-dropping total of US$900 m in Clearwire, a US-based wireless broadband provider. Clearwire intends to use the cash to deploy wireless networks based on the 802.16e ‘standard’ — the mobile version of WiMax — in both the US and Europe.
Only weeks prior to Clearwire’s cash injection, Pakistan’s Wateen Telecom — part of Warid Telecom International — declared at the WiMax World Europe event that it had selected Motorola as the primary supplier for the deployment of a nationwide WiMax network. Using Motorola’s 802.16ebased MOTOwi4 kit, Wateen Telecom claims that the network rollout — which is scheduled to be complete by the end of this year — could well be the single largest WiMAX deployment in the world to date. The operator’s aim is to have coverage in 22 cities and serve over one million customers with a range of voice, internet, data and value-added services.
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