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Thursday, 13 September 2007 |
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PhoneBrasil and CityNet Wireless ink US$1.2bn deal.
PhoneBrasil International Inc and CityNet Wireless (Tacora Inc.) have announced that both parties have now finalised, signed, and executed an agreement for the first large-scale Wi-Fi/WiMAX platform in
Brazil. The deal is worth a cool US$1.2bn.
The new Wi-Fi/WiMAX network will cover most major metropolitan cities, areas, states, and territories of
Brazil. The new technology will give both new subscribers and already existing PhoneBrasil customers the ability to connect their computers, laptops, VoIP networking devices, and hybrid cellular dual-mode communication interfaces anywhere, when the large-scale Wi-Fi/WiMAX platform is available.
And in other WiMAX news, a report from ABI Research – ‘3G Machine-To-Machine (M2M) Communications’ – predicts great things for the technology in the M2M sector. According to ABI the cellular M2M market will be impacted by the growing momentum behind the deployment of WiMAX as a next-generation wireless WAN communications technology. ABI reckons that WiMAX is even more spectrally efficient and cost-effective to operate in carrier networks when compared with W-CDMA and CDMA EV-DO, making WiMAX very suitable for low data rate, low ARPU M2M applications - when and where WiMAX connectivity is available.
“Sprint and Clearwire are the two most significant service providers deploying WiMAX in the
United States. Sprint, a CDMA-based operator, has selected WiMAX as its path to 4G service offerings. Sprint will work with Clearwire - a Craig McCaw startup that has received US$600mn in venture backing from Intel and US$300mn from Motorola - to provide joint coverage to each other’s respective customers on the nationwide WiMAX networks deployed by the two companies,” states Sam Lucero, ABI Research senior analyst. “Sprint is rapidly deploying WiMAX infrastructure in
North America, and believes WiMAX is well-suited to deliver cost-effective, wide area M2M services: a viewpoint borne out by ABI Research analysis.”
John Williamson |
