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Forum Maps WiMAX

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 5th, 2008

The WiMAX Forum has announced the launch of their Interactive Deployment Database, which has information on more than 300 WiMAX deployments around the world.

The new Interactive Deployment Database relies upon the WCIS database offered by Informa Telecoms, and focuses upon various WiMAX operators, providing the readers with the latest data regarding the WiMAX deployments that have been made worldwide. A link to the database has been provided at the homepage of the WiMAX forum, and can be accessed at www.wimaxmaps.org.

WiMAX operator case studies are being added to the Forum’s website including commercial WiMAX networks by KT (Korea), DBD Deutsche Breitband Dienste (Germany), Iberbanda (Spain), WiMAX Telecom (Austria, Slovakia and Croatia), Liberty Technologies (Panama), DigitalBridge Communications (U.S.A.) and Max Telecom (Bulgaria). Additional case studies will be added to the collection later this year.

Sprint’s Xohm WiMax service is set to launch this month in Baltimore. More cities are planned for the fourth quarter, including Chicago and Washington, D.C. Sprint has also begun installing equipment in Boston, Philadelphia and Dallas/Fort Worth.

Meanwhile, Clearwire service may be available in Portland, Oregon in a month or so. By the end of the year, Clearwire may also launch service in Atlanta, Las Vegas and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Ben Wolff, Clearwire CEO (right), expects that the joint venture will get a boost from a $3.2 billion investment from Google, Intel and three cable companies, soon, to “fuel our nationwide mobile WiMax network deployment.

source : dailywireless.org