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Alcatel-Lucent to Build 1000-City Russian WiMAX Network

Stuart Comer writes on iTWire.com.au:

Russian telco, Synterra, has chosen Alcatel-Lucent to deploy a mobile WiMAX networks in more than 1000 Russian cities and towns by the end of 2008.

This is not the fixed WiMAX technology (IEEE 802.16-2004 or IEEE 802.6d) chosen by Opel for its Australian network rollout and will operate at a much lower frequency (2.5GHz as opposed to 5.8GHz). As yet there are no commercial deployments of this technology. However there have been, and there are ongoing trials. These and the award of a contract for such a large network stand in contrast to Telstra CTO Hugh Bradlow's claim that the mobile WiMAX technology is "completely unproven".

Alcatel-Lucent claims 70 WiMAX trials and deployments worldwide and 11 commercial contracts. However it has not specified how many of these are for mobile WiMAX.

posted by Fergie @ 7/08/2007 07:47:00 PM