Motorola has won a supply contract with Mexico's Axtel, a fixed-line integrated telecommunications company. Axtel will purchase from Motorola equipment to install 802.16e WiMAX radiobase stations (access points), voice and data customer premise equipment, or CPE's, and PCMCIA cards. Indoor CPE's with wi-fi functionality and USB dongles will also be available for WiMAX. Laptops, PDA's and handsets with WiMAX embedded chipsets should be available by the end of this year or beginning 2009.
"Axtel becomes the first telecommunications company to introduce the new WiMAX technology in Mexico, supporting Axtel's multi-technology strategy where customers are served using the most efficient technological solutions maximizing our return on investment. This deployment strengthens Axtel's clear convergence strategy of providing fixed and mobile telecommunications services on a single network," stated Tomas Milmo Santos, Axtel's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Deployment of WiMAX technology has begun in Monterrey, Puebla and Guadalajara, with more cities coming soon.
Posted to the site on 13th January 2008
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