Motorola Powers the First WiMAX Network in East Malaysia

Malaysia's REDtone has launched East Malaysia's first WiMAX broadband services, initially covering the Kota Kinabalu business district - and powered by Motorola equipment. Motorola is working with REDtone to supply and deploy WiMAX 2.3GHz equipment at base sites and install customer premises equipment (CPE) to provide broadband services in major business districts in the first phase of the plan.

"We selected Motorola for this WiMAX project after a thorough evaluation and several field trials. Motorola has extensive WiMAX experience, its system is easy to set up and requires minimum installation footprint, which in the process helps reduce deployment time and lowers overall operational cost," Zainal added. "We are also impressed by Motorola's ability to provide advanced features like MIMO-B in a live system. These features will ensure a smooth network upgrade when we need to increase system capacity in the future."

Besides providing broadband services to enterprise customers, REDtone is also planning to work with service providers based in Sabah and Sarawak to provide broadband services to the general public. The lack of capacity is causing slow Internet connection during peak period. The new WiMAX network will bring additional bandwidth to the areas and improve overall user experiences, generating more business opportunities for REDtone and local service providers.

While East Malaysia is less populated and relatively less developed than West Malaysia, its land mass is larger and it has notably more natural resources, which are chiefly oil and gas reserves.

Posted to the site on 20th August 2008