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Hot on the heels of last week’s WiBro rollout in South Korea, Colombian long-distance operator Orbitel has teamed up with hardware manufacturer Siemens to deploy Latin America’s first WiMax network in the city of Cali. The long-range wireless network, which will be duplicated in fourteen other cities in the upcoming months, employs Siemens’ WayMax@dvantage (that’s not a typo) system of base stations, modems, and monitoring and control gear to ensure interoperability with future devices based on the IEEE’s 802.16e-2005 standard. WiMax is a particularly attractive option in countries whose wired infrastructures are still rather limited, allowing service providers to essentially leapfrog right over current broadband solutions and offer high-speed connections with considerably less capital expenditure. Orbitel is currently selling several service packages ranging from $39 to $325 per month, which supposedly buys you download speeds in the range of 2Mbps.
[Via GigaOm]
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Orbitel, Siemens roll out WiMax in Colombia originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by: in Networking
Hot on the heels of last week’s WiBro rollout in South Korea, Colombian long-distance operator Orbitel has teamed up with hardware manufacturer Siemens to deploy Latin America’s first WiMax network in the city of Cali. The long-range wireless network, which will be duplicated in fourteen other cities in the upcoming months, employs Siemens’ WayMax@dvantage (that’s not a typo) system of base stations, modems, and monitoring and control gear to ensure interoperability with future devices based on the IEEE’s 802.16e-2005 standard. WiMax is a particularly attractive option in countries whose wired infrastructures are still rather limited, allowing service providers to essentially leapfrog right over current broadband solutions and offer high-speed connections with considerably less capital expenditure. Orbitel is currently selling several service packages ranging from $39 to $325 per month, which supposedly purchases you download speeds in the range of 2Mbps.
[Via GigaOm]
Filed under: Wireless, Networking
Orbitel, Siemens roll out WiMax in Colombia originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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