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Omnivision has announced that it has concluded a commercial contract with POSDATA (News - Alert) FLYVO for the largest scale deployment in Latin America to expand mobile WiMAX service coverage in Venezuela.

 

As per the deal, POSDATA is expected to provide a complete mobile WiMAX solution including 300 base stations and 30,000 plus user terminals for the initial phase in 2008. Later in 2009 and onward, Omnivision and POSDATA plan to increase deployment and service coverage.

 

Indicating that Omnivision’s nationwide mobile WiMAX (News - Alert) network will provide seamless access and connectivity to Venezuela, Dick Abanto Ishiwata, CEO at Omnivision, said in a statement, “We are pleased that POSDATA will be our partner with its leading products.”

 

Considered to be the first mobile WiMAX operator in Latin America, Omnivision has provided service running at 2.5GHz band since July, 2007. The company is also planning to expand coverage from 8million population in Caracas to 28million population nationwide in 3 years, targeting 2.5million subscribers in 5 years.

 

Ishiwata pointed out that to accomplish this “ambitious milestone,” Omnivision and POSDATA have agreed to maintain a “solid partnership in every possible way of mobile WiMAX business.”

 

“As a global Mobile WiMAX solution provider, POSDATA has been actively deploying IEEE802.16e based systems and terminals in Asian countries,” said Joonil Shin, executive vice president at POSDATA.

 

He believes that with the supply contract with Omnivision, POSDATA has secured a firm base to expand commercial reference throughout South American countries.

 

Last week, QMax Communications Pte Ltd, a mobile WiMAX service provider in Singapore, announced that wireless broadband service is currently being offered in the main harbor and coastal areas in southern Singapore using mobile WiMAX technology powered by POSDATA FLYVO, which is POSDATA’s mobile WIMAX business.

 

POSDATA is a provider of end-to-end mobile WiMAX solutions. Based on its core mobile WIMAX technologies, the company has been providing mobile WiMAX base stations, ASN-gateways, network management systems, and also user terminals.

 

 

 

 

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