Tata Communications reported Tuesday that Telsima will provide infrastructure for the WiMax network its building to serve more than 110 cities in India. Tata said the deployment will be the largest commercial WiMax network in the world.
Tata said deployment of the wide area, high-speed wireless network is already underway with more than 5,000 enterprise and retail customers in 10 cities using the network.
Telsima, headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., has been chosen to deploy 3,000 base stations. "The Indian broadband market, which today serves only 3.1 million customers in a nation with a population of over 1.2 billion, is forecast to grow significantly," said Shankar Prasad, president of Tata Communications Retail Business unit, in a statement.
The WiMax deployment is being rolled out in stages. Initially, enterprise and residential customers will be served in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Cochin, Chandigarh, and Kolkata.
Taiwan also is racing to deploy an ambitious $664 million WiMax network and has enlisted the aid of several U.S. companies in its effort.
The WiMax effort in the United States has sputtered as its major nationwide deployment by Sprint has been slowed by a series of mishaps and problems at the mobile phone company. Once planning to spend $5 billion on its U.S. rollout, Sprint has recently pulled back on the effort as it seeks additional funding and partners for the project.
In another WiMax-related development Tuesday, Clearwire reported that it plans to begin deploying mobile WiMax during the second half of the year as a result of what it said were successful initial trials of the technology. The company said it had a subscriber base of nearly 400,000 at the end of 2007.
Clearwire, which has had an on-again off-again partnership with Sprint, said its consolidated revenue was $45.4 million in the fourth quarter, up from $23.7 million in the same quarter in 2006. The company reported a loss of $83.1 million for the quarter, but CEO Benjamin Wolff said the number of the companys operating markets that were cash flow positive jumped from four in 2006 to 24 at the end of 2007.
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Tata said deployment of the wide area, high-speed wireless network is already underway with more than 5,000 enterprise and retail customers in 10 cities using the network.
Telsima, headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., has been chosen to deploy 3,000 base stations. "The Indian broadband market, which today serves only 3.1 million customers in a nation with a population of over 1.2 billion, is forecast to grow significantly," said Shankar Prasad, president of Tata Communications Retail Business unit, in a statement.
The WiMax deployment is being rolled out in stages. Initially, enterprise and residential customers will be served in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Cochin, Chandigarh, and Kolkata.
Taiwan also is racing to deploy an ambitious $664 million WiMax network and has enlisted the aid of several U.S. companies in its effort.
The WiMax effort in the United States has sputtered as its major nationwide deployment by Sprint has been slowed by a series of mishaps and problems at the mobile phone company. Once planning to spend $5 billion on its U.S. rollout, Sprint has recently pulled back on the effort as it seeks additional funding and partners for the project.
In another WiMax-related development Tuesday, Clearwire reported that it plans to begin deploying mobile WiMax during the second half of the year as a result of what it said were successful initial trials of the technology. The company said it had a subscriber base of nearly 400,000 at the end of 2007.
Clearwire, which has had an on-again off-again partnership with Sprint, said its consolidated revenue was $45.4 million in the fourth quarter, up from $23.7 million in the same quarter in 2006. The company reported a loss of $83.1 million for the quarter, but CEO Benjamin Wolff said the number of the companys operating markets that were cash flow positive jumped from four in 2006 to 24 at the end of 2007.
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