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Telenor continues nationwide WiMAX expansion

Airspan to supply broadband wireless solution for high-speed residential and business services in Norway.

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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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