Samsung Launches New Mobile WiMAX Devices in Korea

<<<... WiBro services offer users web searching, e-mail, multimedia features, video conference,and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) at an affordable price. Purchase reservations can be made for the M8100 and P9000 on the KT WiBro website. WiBro is expected to gain momentum in Korea with this service expansion

Alcatel-Lucent builds first commercial Universal 802.16e–2005 WiMAX Network in Germany

Alcatel-Lucent is deploying Germany’s first commercial universal WiMAX network - based on the 802.16e–2005 standard (also known as Rev-e) - in the Saar region for VSE NET, a regional telecommunications service provider in Saarbrücken. The project is being conducted in close cooperation with VSE NET, Inquam Broadband -- a nationwide license holder in Germany -- and Alcatel-Lucent. VSE NET is establishing the first regional WiMAX network in an area not covered by conventional DSL technology. Work on the network will start in the autumn of 2007, and commercial operation is set to commence in January 2008.

The network will support high-speed Internet access and voice over IP (VoIP) and other data services with transfer rates of up to six megabits per second (Mbps). In the initial stage of the deployment, wireless broadband will be made available to residential and business customers in the sparsely populated northern Saar region, where it is not economically viable to build a conventional DSL infrastructure. Based on the WiMAX Rev-e standard and operating in the 3.5 GHz frequency band, the VSE NET broadband network will enable stationary, nomadic and mobile applications and will efficiently complement existing landline-based broadband services ... more >>>