Friday, August 12, 2005

WiMax comes to Canterbury ( May 05)

Telabria tests all sorts...

Peter Judge | silicon.com | Monday 23 May 2005

Service provider Telabria is starting a city-wide WiMax trial in Canterbury, weeks before it launches its wireless broadband service commercially.

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The test will include equipment from Alvarion and others, and will test interoperability of WiMax equipment, an aspect which has come to the fore with the delay of official testing from the WiMax Forum.

The frequencies covered by the university trial are likely to include the 3.6GHz spectrum licensed to PCCW, and the 5.8GHz band covered by Ofcom's "light licensing" regime. The test will operate under a research and development licence from Ofcom.

Spectrum will be the biggest challenge for WiMax, said Baker: "In Europe, there is almost no harmonisation of the spectrum that is suitable for WiMax. That is a big problem." Ofcom's plan to liberalise licences in its framework review would allow operators to bring WiMax services on stream more quickly, he said. "Spectrum trading will be very important," he added.

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