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Telenor continues nationwide WiMAX expansion
Airspan to supply broadband wireless solution for high-speed residential and business services in Norway.
Airspan Networks, Inc. announced that Telenor has awarded Airspan a
contract to expand the operator's national WiMAX network across Norway.
Serving rural areas previously unreached by broadband, WiMAX solutions from
Airspan will enable Telenor to deliver IP services to thousands of new
subscribers. Telenor will be offering business and residential high-speed
data services in several additional regions nationwide.
"The Airspan solutions interface to our existing Broadband delivery systems and
perfectly meet our needs enabling us to successfully build our network and
achieve our business objectives," said Bjorn Netland, Director Broadband
Platforms of Telenor. "This second phase deployment is well under way and
will continue through several months."
Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, Telenor operates a wired ADSL broadband network
that covers nearly all of Norway's population. The addition of WiMAX to
its offerings are seen as critical for covering the balance unreachable by DSL
and for businesses looking at scalable, high-speed broadband. The
company's service portfolio includes analog and digital fixed-line telephony, as
well as broadband voice over IP, Internet access, value-added services and
leased lines. The provider also has ownership interest in 12 mobile
operators and more than 143 million mobile subscribers internationally.
Telenor acquired its 3.5 GHz spectrum licenses in 2004.
In November 2007, five bidders took WiMAX spectrum licenses in Norway's 2.5~2.7
GHz band. Considered the "sweet spot" for mobile broadband services, the
winners besides Telenor were: Arctic Wireless AS, Craig Wireless Systems Ltd,
Hafslund Telekom AS and NetCom AS, a subsidiary of TeliaSonera AB.
By Jeff Orr, ORR Technology, LLC
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