GNG News Guy
06-18-2008, 12:18 PM
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Europe's first mobile WiMax network went live for demonstration purposes this week in Amsterdam, courtesy of a company by the name of WorldMax (http://www.worldmax.nl/en). Once the network goes completely live later this summer, Amsterdam residents will get 1Mbps/128kbps unlimited service for about 20 Euro ($31) a month. The company plans to expand coverage to the entire Netherlands in time, a task that will require some 3,000 tower sites, and will cost "hundreds of millions" of dollars, according to Reuters (http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL1738237920080618). The network was built by Alcatel-Lucent and partially financed by Intel.
Europe's first mobile WiMax network went live for demonstration purposes this week in Amsterdam, courtesy of a company by the name of WorldMax (http://www.worldmax.nl/en). Once the network goes completely live later this summer, Amsterdam residents will get 1Mbps/128kbps unlimited service for about 20 Euro ($31) a month. The company plans to expand coverage to the entire Netherlands in time, a task that will require some 3,000 tower sites, and will cost "hundreds of millions" of dollars, according to Reuters (http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL1738237920080618). The network was built by Alcatel-Lucent and partially financed by Intel.