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Libya Telecom and Technology Awards Mobile WiMAX Contract to Alcatel-Lucent
Libya’s national ISP to launch commercial 802.16e-2005 network services this September.
Alcatel-Lucent announced that it has been awarded
a contract by Libya Telecom and Technology (LTT), the national Internet Service
Provider in Libya, to deploy the first commercial WIMAX network based on the
802.16e-2005 WiMAX standard in the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya. LTT plans to launch commercial network services this September.
The new network will support voice over IP (VoIP) and high-speed internet
access, enabling the delivery of advanced broadband multimedia services, such as
video streaming, through a variety of end-user devices including modems and
WiMAX terminals. It will also accommodate stationary, nomadic and mobile
applications and complement LTT's existing fixed-based broadband services.
"We want to provide our residential and business customers a wide range of
beneficial, easy-to-use wireless broadband services," said Abdul Majeed Husain,
Planning and Projects department Manager of LTT. "Alcatel-Lucent's WiMAX
solution will enable us to better serve customers in major urban centers such as
Tripoli."
Alcatel-Lucent will provide an end-to-end WiMAX infrastructure solution,
including the radio access network, microwave backhaul and IP routers and will
deploy around 120 sites during the first phase. Device and terminal vendor
selections are at the discretion of LTT. Alcatel-Lucent has identified several
partners in its Open WiMAX CPE (customer premise equipment) initiative capable
of interoperating with the provider's infrastructure.
WiMAX is seen as a valuable tool for rapidly and cost-effectively increasing
penetration of high-speed Internet access in economies such as Libya's. The
North African country is home to an estimated 6.17 million citizens and covers a
land mass of about 1.76 million km2. Libya has approximately 232,000 Internet
users, according to a September 2007 ITU report.
By Jeff Orr
ORR Technology, LLC
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