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WiMAX is Alive and Well Overseas
Despite uncertainties in the US market centered around Sprint, WiMAX is clearly alive and well in other parts of the world.
As reported on Unstrung this past week, venerable British Telecom
wants WiMAX. The report is that BT intends to bid for UK broadband
spectrum immediately and in other European countries as well. Unstrung
reports that BT is looking for ways to cohere its cellular, WiMAX and
Wi-Fi offerings together into some type of blended service.
The UK's OFCOM plans an auction of 215 MHz (of which 50 MHz to 190 MHz
would be slated for WiMAX operations) of spectrum in the 2.6 GHz range
somewhere around the end of this year.
For its part BT seems interested in the spectrum but only if the price is prudent.
Future BT targets for spectrum bids could be Germany, Sweden and
Norway. In the meantime BT is pursuing requests for information from
several vendors to learn more about the systems. Vendors of interest
are likely Alvarion, which BT already uses for some purposes, Motorola
and Nokia.
Tim Sanders
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