The WiMAX Forum has announced that a roaming trial between Clearwire and Digital Bridge Communications (DBC), two US Mobile WiMAX operators using 2.5GHz spectrum, will start at the end of this month. “It is the next generation of the WiMAX Forum global roaming programmes,” says Ron Resnick, president of the WiMAX Forum. “This will pave the way for commercial WiMAX-to-WiMAX roaming.”
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September 14, 2009 — 10:09am ET | By Phil Goldstein
Clearwire and two other WiMAX operators, UQ Communications of Japan and Yota of Russia, signed a memorandum of understanding that the companies said lays the foundation for roaming agreements among them.
The companies said they would work together on both the business and technical aspects of creating international roaming among their services. They also said they would work with Global Alliance Partner Program members and other WiMAX service providers to increase the number of countries that support international WiMAX roaming. Additionally, they said they would support the WIMAX Forum's roaming guidelines.
Likewise, Clearwire said it would continue to work with its Global Alliance Partners--YTL Communications of Malaysia, wi-tribe of Pakistan, Vee Telecom of Taiwan and Global Mobile of Taiwan--to make sure that there is international roaming among their services once they are commercially deployed.
Roaming has been one of the key focuses of the WiMAX community as it looks to strengthen its international reach. In January, the WiMAX Forum launched its Global Roaming Program, which is designed to facilitate WiMAX roaming.
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SEOUL -- Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading provider of telecom systems and mobile phones, and VMAX Telecom, a Taiwan-based WiMAX operator, today announced that they successfully demonstrated the industry’s first Mobile WiMAX roaming service at the Broadband Taiwan 2009 conference.
By offering an international and national roaming service demonstration using Samsung’s Mobile WiMAX systems and devices, the companies reaffirmed their leadership of the technology. The presentation showed that with the roaming service, Mobile WiMAX is capable of being used around the world. For roaming service between different service networks, the two networks should be interoperated by sharing registration information.
At the conference, Samsung and VMAX presented a Mobile Internet Device called Mondi™, which is registered on the Clearwire Mobile WiMAX service in the United States, accessible on VMAX’s network and equipped with all the services provided by VMAX. The demonstration also featured interoperability between VMAX’s Mobile WiMAX service in northern Taiwan and Tatung’s Mobile WiMAX network in southern Taiwan.
”This affirms the interoperability and maturity of Samsung WiMAX system, and it will enable VMAX to deliver the promises of WiMAX in Taiwan,” said Teddy Huang, President and CEO of VMAX
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WiMAX Forum® Announces First Commercial Global Roaming Trials at WiMAX Forum Global Congress 2009
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AMSTERDAM – June 2, 2009 – The WiMAX Forum today announced at its second annual Global Congress 2009 in Amsterdam that 14 ecosystem leaders are participating in the first ever commercial WiMAX interoperability and roaming trials. These operators, device manufacturers, equipment vendors, and clearing houses include Aicent, Alvarion, Bridgewater Systems, Cisco, Clearwire, Comfone, DigitalBridge Communications, Intel, iPass, Juniper Networks, MACH, Motorola, Syniverse and Transaction Network Services.
«The record time of deployment of the network in Nicaragua shows that Yota has accumulated the strong expertise and has created the proven network infrastructure based on Samsung equipment. All these issues allow Yota to deployment networks in any country in the world extremely fast», — commented Doctor Song, Samsung Electronics.
Russia's Yota was the first to get a 4G phone the HTC MAX 4G
Russian operator Yota believes it has cracked the code for turning a quick buck from WiMax services. The company announced today that it has reached "operational breakeven" only five months after it launched commercial services in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
"Our business experience may be used as a reference point for other mobile WiMax operators. It demonstrates that 4G broadband services business can be quite profitable," states the company's general director Denis Sverdlov in today's press release.
“WiMax can be deployed over wide areas to serve thousands of consumers cheaper and faster than traditional wireline services,” Resnick said. “For every dollar spent on a new network, a WiMax operator can cover 10 to 20 times the number of homes and businesses with WiMax service than they can cover with wireline. These savings are passed along to the customer, who spends only $25 to $35 a month on a WiMax connection with comparable speed to a $50 to $60 cable or wireline connection.”
WiMax is designed to build a network infrastructure when the environment or distance is not favorable to a wired network. In addition, WiMax is a cheaper and faster than having to wire. third world countries will greatly benefit from deploying WiMax networks.
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