Motorola Continues WiMAX Leadership in 2007 With 802.16e Network Deployments, Devices, and Historic Mobile WiMAX Handoffs
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Monday December 17, 11:15 am ET
Sees 2008 as the year for WiMAX customer premises equipment, devices, applications and experiences as more customers launch networks
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), a leading provider of wireless broadband solutions, today issued a year-end update on its wi4 WiMAX solutions and customer engagements. During 2007 Motorola increased to 15 its number of contracts for commercial WiMAX networks and demonstrated the historic first live mobile WiMAX 802.16e handoffs between continuous WiMAX cells supporting voice, data and multimedia applications during WiMAX World USA in Chicago.
The company also:
-- Increased to more than 57 the number of WiMAX engagements in 38
countries worldwide, including 44 active trials.
-- Is on track to support Sprint/Xohm(TM) soft launch in Chicago by year
end 2007 and is on schedule with deployment for the planned commercial
launch in Q2 2008.
-- Delivered thousands of access points to customers worldwide and
delivered tens of thousands of CPE units or PC cards for customer
engagements including trials and commercial deployments currently
underway.
-- Completed the deployment of the first 802.16e commercial WiMAX network
in Pakistan for Wateen Telecom. The operator has since launched
nationwide commercial services to corporate and consumer markets.
-- Unveiled its test WiMAX mobile device and WiMAX chipset which will be
embedded in consumer electronic devices to provide mobile Internet
access.
-- Completed the first phase deployment of two additional commercial WiMAX
systems in France and Germany. |
