BT has issued a request for information for WiMax and wants to bid for spectrum in the U.K. this year and in other European markets next year.
BT is said to be interested in combining cellular, WiFi, and WiMax as part of its service offerings.
U.K. regulator Office of Communications (Ofcom) will auction 215 MHz of spectrum in the 2.6GHz range, which is commonly referred to in Europe as the 3G expansion band, at the end of this year or early next year. Ofcom has not finalized the auction and spectrum specifics, but it proposes that of the 215 MHz of spectrum, between 50 MHz and 190 MHz will be suitable for WiMax. (See Spectrum up for Grabs in Europe.)
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One source tells Unstrung that BT will also pursue WiMax licenses as spectrum becomes available in other European markets. The next countries to auction the 2.6GHz band will be Germany in early 2008, Sweden in the spring of 2008, and Norway in October this year.
ELMAT:
This, above, doesn’t augur well for ADSL. Once those networks kick in, we will move to them in droves.
In the future you will hook to a Sonera network, with any flavor you have, CDMA, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, GSM…
The networks are already there. It needs as much minutes as possible to be ran over it, so it will open to anyone who wants to access and pay a micro payment to use it to bridge it through to where he wants.
It will charge little but will move huge volumes |
