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In a bid to offer high-speed broadband services to urban and rural customers across the country, Wind Telecom, a Dominican Republic network operator, has inked an agreement with Nortel (News - Alert) to deploy a WiMAX network.
The network is expected to be commercially available in Sept. 2007 in Santo Domingo, Santiago, Puerto Plata and Bavaro/Punta Cana.
Wind Telecom will use Nortel’s MIMO-powered WiMAX (News - Alert) innovations to deliver services such as VoIP, video-streaming and mobile broadband. Subscribers will be able to access information and economic advantages such as e-commerce.
“Nortel’s WiMAX solution allows us to achieve the goal of affordable broadband for both business and individual consumers, without the complexities of building a wired network,” said Manuel Bonilla, CEO, Wind Telecom, in a statement. “This makes it especially well suited to historical cities like Santo Domingo where the inner-city is dense with buildings, as well as for sub-urban and rural services.”
According to the news release, the network will be an end-to-end solution for Wind Telecom, including consumer devices, mobile WiMAX base stations, ASN gateway, business support system (BSS) and operational support system (OSS) platforms as well as professional services such as training. All proposed base stations will be operating in the 2.5GHz frequency band.
Nortel’s 4G WiMAX solution is based on a foundation of OFDM-MIMO, a combination of innovative transmission and antenna technologies that maximizes spectrum to deliver high bandwidth essential to high-quality mobile video and TV.
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Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering telecommunications, service providers and networking.
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