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[June 12, 2009]

'Bollore Telecom confirms plan to switch off WiMAX site'

Jun 12, 2009 (DMEUROPE via COMTEX) -- French operator Bollore Telecom has confirmed that it would end service at its WiMAX base station in the Artois area in Pas-de-Calais at the end of June, a move that will affect 23 homes. Company general manager Marc Taieb told AFP that TDF was charging it EUR 9,000 per month to rent and maintain the site, too much to allow it to make a profit, even if it were located in central Paris. As previously reported, service provider Nordnet is offering satellite services the customers left without WiMAX service. WiMAX is not taking off in France. Bollore Telecom, which bought eight WiMAX licences from TDF-controlled consortium HDRR in June 2008, had only installed 13.4 percent of its planned base stations by the end of the year. According to regulator Arcep, of the 3,562 locations that should have been covered with WiMAX service across the country by 30 June 2008, only 657 were connected as of 31 December 2008. Taieb said that Bollore was not planning to shut off any other WiMAX sites at the present but was studying the question.



He added that the model in rural areas was not viable, and that while a base station operating at break-even was acceptable, making such a big loss was not. Bollore Telecom is mainly targeting the mobile market in densely populated areas, and is ready to move to LTE if vendors to not offer mobile WiMAX terminals.

Distributed for DMeurope.com via M2 Communications (www.m2.com)

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