Mobile WiMax lands in Europe

by Julian Prokaza
on Wed 18 Jun 2008 Comment

Worldmax WiMaxThe first Mobile WiMax network in Europe has now gone live in Amsterdam, offering speeds "comparable to broadband" from anywhere within the city's ring road for €20 (£16) a month.

Being mobile, the network conforms to the 802.11e standard for WiMax, which means it can be used on the move, rather than just from stationary laptops...

It's a small start for the new technology but, Worldmax, which operates the network, is confident it can spread coverage to the rest of Holland. Intel, which has invested heavily in WiMax and is adding it to its Centrino chips, is also a backer.

WiMax of the non-mobile variety is already available in the UK in Milton Keynes, and shortly in Manchester and Warwick, thanks to Freedom4. The Managing director of Intel Capital EMEA, Ashish Patel, has made claims that WiMax could be country-wide here by 2010. It's still set to face stiff competition from the competing LTE technology, which most of the current 3G providers are backing.

[ Reuters]

Originally published on www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk, now incorporated into Broadband Genie
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