http://www.telecoms.com/17495/mea-offers-some-of-the-best-regional-prospects-for-wimax/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mea-offers-some-of-the-best-regional-prospects-for-wimax telecoms.com is the leading provider of global news, comment and analysis for the telecommunications industry Thu, 17 May 2012 09:30:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 http://www.telecoms.com/17495/mea-offers-some-of-the-best-regional-prospects-for-wimax/comment-page-1/#comment-6997 Stuart Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:21:58 +0000 http://www.telecoms.com/?p=17495#comment-6997 There are no operators considering using WiMAX for backhaul for mobile networks as far as I know, primarily due to the latency performance over WiMAX. Rather mobile operators are deploying WiMAX in parallel with GSM base stations to deliver high bandwidth 'wireless DSL' services to premium customers to increase revenue and ARPU. The WiMAX base stations can then share the same backhaul network, which in Middle East and Africa is primarly provided by point to point microwave, of the kind supplied by Harris Stratex Networks There are no operators considering using WiMAX for backhaul for mobile networks as far as I know, primarily due to the latency performance over WiMAX. Rather mobile operators are deploying WiMAX in parallel with GSM base stations to deliver high bandwidth ‘wireless DSL’ services to premium customers to increase revenue and ARPU. The WiMAX base stations can then share the same backhaul network, which in Middle East and Africa is primarly provided by point to point microwave, of the kind supplied by Harris Stratex Networks

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