Germany to get WiMax from Nortel
Published: 06 Apr 2006 12:45 BST
Germany is the latest country to jump on the WiMax bandwagon, with a collaboration between Nortel and regional utility firm NEW Energie.
The pair have completed a trial in the Rhine-Westphalia region, in the west of Germany, and are now preparing for a commercial launch of the service targeted at SMEs and consumers.
According to Nortel, the WiMax rollout will promise speeds of 10Mbps for users — a dramatic increase on the 500Kbps seen by one WiMax trial.
The service is expected to launch in the second quarter of this year, with users connecting using a "small indoor modem", Nortel said.
While the German network will concentrate on supplying rural areas, recent WiMax deployments have been in more built-up areas. This week has already seen a new venture between Intel and Pipex to create a WiMax provider for urban areas in the UK, while Samsung revealed it will be supplying kit for a trial of WiBro, the South Korean equivalent of WiMax, in the country's capital Seoul.
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