List of WiMAX networks

This is a list of proposed and deployed WiMAX networks by country.

Contents:	A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Angola

• MSTelcom is deploying a nationwide project at 2.5 GHz. About 60% of Luanda is covered. Data and voice over IP are among the services to be supplied to the end-users.

Australia

• Adam Internet operates a Fixed WiMAX network in the Metropolitan area of Adelaide, South Australia in the 5.0Ghz band. Speeds up to 12mbps are achievable.
• Agile Communications operates Fixed WiMAX networks in the Coorong, Yorke Peninsula, and Riverlands areas of South Australia, retailed by partner ISP.

B

Bangladesh

• BanglaLion BanglaLion Communications Ltd using WiMAX standard 802.16e and onward revisions only. It allows VoIP services as well.
• Qubee Launched wireless broadband Internet services for residential and business customers in Dhaka in October 2009.

Barbados

• TeleBarbados uses WiMAX to cover most of the island of Barbados in partnership with its subsidiary Freemotion.

Belarus

• Beltelecom has developed WiMAX network under the ByFly brand.

Bulgaria

• Max Telecom holds a class A license in the 3.5 GHz band (2 x 21 MHz) and has deployed a network with mobile WiMAX technology in 14 towns so far.
• Nexcom Bulgaria has deployed a WiMAX network in Bulgaria that covers half the country.

C

Canada

• Bell Canada, and Rogers Communications offer a shared WiMAX network in partnership with Inukshuk Wireless (although Inukshuk uses mostly pre-WiMAX for its own network). Bell Canada offers their Portable and Rural Bell WiMAX Internet services in many cities in Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec. Rogers offers their Portable Internet (WiMAX) service in over 150 communities across Canada.
• Sogetel offers WiMAX service for Nicolet-Yamaska and Bécancour in Quebec.
• Craig Wireless is planning on offering commercial 2.5 GHz WiMAX service to Vancouver, British Columbia and Winnipeg, Manitoba.
• Primus Canada and Mipps Inc. are now (May'07) jointly conducting WiMAX IEEE 802.16e-2005 (3.5 GHz) trials in Hamilton, Ontario, using Alcatel-Lucent's new WiMAX equipment

Cayman Islands

• Digicel has deployed 802.16d & 802.16e technology for its Digicel Broadband solution.

Colombia

• In July 2006 Orbitel launched in Cali the first WiMAX network of Colombia.
• In January 20, 2006, Colombian company Telecom launched a PRE-WiMAX network in Bucaramanga. Orbitel, ETB and Telecom hold 3.5 GHz licences for the entire country. Nowadays other cities with WiMAX are Cali, Bogotá, Cúcuta, Barranquilla, Cartagena and Medellín.

Congo

• Elix has deployed a citywide WiMAX network in the city of Kinshasa, using licensed spectrum at 3.5 GHz.

Costa Rica

• Radiografica Costarricense S.A. (RACSA, a part of the state owned Grupo ICE) started offering the service on the second week of 2008.

Croatia

• Novi-net offers WiMAX in Međimurje county, Dubrovnik telekom in Dubrovnik
• Optima Telekom have operating WiMAX with Siemens equipment in Osijek, Rijeka, Split, Cakovec, Opatija, Valpovo and Djakovo but getting out of business.
• WiMAX Telecom started to build network with Alcatel-Lucent equipment.3.5 GHz frequencies .
• OiV just get licences.

D

Dominican Republic

• Since October 2007, the first WiMAX ISP Onemax delivers both telephony and internet access, using licenced spectrum at 3.5 GHz, to both home and business customers in Santo Domingo. Also, TRICOM ([2]) it is currently offering WiMAX services to its business customers, on a first implementation phase (town Bavaro; also the municipalities of Haina, Santo Domingo Oeste, Santo Domingo Norte and Greater Santo Domingo). Recently, there's a third WiMAX provider, Wind Telecom, that offers not only telephony and data, but also subscription-based digital television broadcasting.

E

Egypt

• The National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) issues WiMAX licensed bands to companies requiring license for using the technology for data transfer.

Estonia

• A total of 4 licenses in the 3.5-3.6 GHz range have been issued to 5 companies. Three of them (Norby Telecom, Baltic Broadband and Tele2) have national-wide licenses and two companies (Levira and Elion) share the same frequency, but Elion can use it only in Tallinn and Harjumaa region and Levira in the whole country except of Tallinn and Harjumaa.

Ethiopia

• The incumbent operator (and state-owned monopoly) ETC has deployed a fixed WiMAX network in the capital city of Addis Abeba using the 3.5 GHz band.

F

Finland

• There are some 15 WiMAX operators in Finland spread throughout the country. The coverage is mainly concentrated on the rural areas and Lapland.

France

• HDRR, a subsidiary of TDF has announced the deployment of mobile WiMAX in the Loiret region of France. He was bought by Bolloré Telecom in 2008.
• Supernet Technologies India (an RT Networx Company)[3] has announced the deployment of 3.5 and 5.8 GHz WiMAX in the city of St. Medard southern region of France.
• Numeo, covers the Limousin region giving wireless broadband 2.5 and soon 4.0 GHz

G

Germany

• In December 2006, 3.4–3.6 GHz band broadband wireless access (BWA) licenses were issued through an auction by the federal regulator Bundesnetzagentur. Clearwire, Inquam and DBD now hold licences for the entire country, two smaller companies hold regional licenses. These licenses are designed for the use with WiMAX technology.

Greece

• OTE claims to have set up two large pilot WiMAX networks in operation in Attiki and one in Mount Athos and to be planning nationwide deployment. [4] As of now, no availability, pricing, or expected dates of commercial deployment have been announced.

I

India

• BSNL

Indonesia

• The Indonesian government announced on January 22, 2009, two ministry decrees and three regulations releasing spectrum at 2.3 GHz and 3.3 GHz for wireless broadband access across all regions of Indonesia. This means Indonesia will using 2.3 GHz band for the Wimax 16.e standard while 3.3 GHz will be used for the 16.d standard.
• Indonesia already able to build their own total solution for Wimax including chips and equipments
• Wimax trial had been held by Indonesian government in mid-October 2008 to provide internet broadband in the Bandung area.
• Based on trial and local content requisites, two vendors (TRG & HARIFF) had been approved by Indonesian government to sell Wimax 16.d equipment to the operators who won wimax 16.d license.
• XIRKA is focusing their business in Wimax chipset.
• TRG, HARIFF & LEN are preparing their product for Wimax 16.e Auction.
• Commercial deployment planned in 2009.
• In July 2009, Indonesian government had announcement the winner of Wimax 16.d license in 15 zones. The winner for each region are:
  • Zone 1 covering North Sumatera region, won by PT First Media Tbk.
  • Zone 2 covering Center Sumatera region, won by PT Berca Hardaya Perkasa.
  • Zone 3 covering South Sumatera region, won by PT Berca Hardaya Perkasa.
  • Zone 4 covering Banten, Jakarta, Bogor, Tanggerang & Bekasi, won by PT First Media.
  • zone 5 covering west Java, won by PT Comtronic System and PT Adiwarta Perdana.
  • Zone 6 covering center Java, won by PT Telkom.
  • Zone 7 covering east Java, won by PT Comtronic System dan PT Adiwarta Perdana.
  • Zone 8 covering Bali and NTB, won by PT Berca Hardaya Perkasa.
  • Zone 9 covering Papua, won by APJII' Consortium & PT Telkom.
  • Zone 10 covering Maluku won by APJII' consortium & PT Telkom.
  • Zone 11 covering south Sulawesi, won by PT Berca Hardaya Perkasa.
  • Zone 12 covering North Sulawesi, won by PT Telkom.
  • Zone 13 covering west Kalimantan, won by PT Berca Hardaya Perkasa.
  • Zone 14 covering east Kalimantan, won by PT Berca Hardaya Perkasa.
  • Zone 15 covering Riau, won by APJII' Consortium & PT Berca Hardaya Perkasa.
• Wimax 16.e auction will be start in 2010 and announced in 2011.

Ireland

• Irish Broadband
• Intel Ireland WiMAX Trials

Italy

• Italian Ministry of Defense currently holds the 3.5 GHz band, and is about to free the band through auctions in order to let the government sell licences. Bloggers and members of consumers associations have started protests against this way of assigning the frequencies. The members of the unofficial Italian Pirate Party are currently organizing a Googlebombing. The Ministry of Defense released the band and recently Ministry of Communications has announced that WiMAX licences contest will be in September 2007 or nearly. All licenses available were awarded to different operators in an auction ended on 27 February 2008. Public services should start soon.

J

Jamaica

• Digicel has deployed an 802.16d network.

Japan

• UQ Communications is a telecommunications company in Japan that provides nationwide WiMAX service. On Feb. 26, 2009, UQ started its mobile WiMAX service in Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kawasaki. The highest speed WiMAX can suggest is 40 Mbit/s down and 7.2 Mbit/s up. Among UQ investors are Intel Capital Corporation, East Japan Railway Company, KYOCERA Corporation, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. and others.

K

Kenya

• AccessKenya has used WiMAX for its broadband residential service, Access@Home in the cities of Nairobi and Mombasa. AccessKenya has currently deployed one of the largest WiMAX Network in East Africa .

Korea(South)

• WiBro is served by KT and SK Telecom.

L

Libya

• Libya Telecom & Technology, the national Internet service provider, deployed the first commercial WiMAX network based on the 802.16e-2005 WiMAX standard in Libya. LTT launched the commercial service on the network in January 2008.

Lithuania

3.5 GHz band is used, license was assigned to LRTC (SC Lithuanian Radio and Television Centre), which offer services. LRTC deployed MEZONG 4G named network (web site offers only in native Lithuanian language), with access in in all main Lithuanian cities, as on August 2010.

M

Malaysia

• Licences have been awarded to 4 operators, Green Packet Bhd, REDtone International Bhd, YTL e-Solutions Bhd and Asiaspace Dotcom Sdn Bhd to provide WiMAX services, service rollout targeted by 2nd quarter of 2008.
• Packet One Networks is ready to lead the market by being the first to deploy on the WiMAX 2.3 GHz spectrum in the region and to establish one of the world’s largest mobile WiMAX 2.3Ghz networks. The WiMAX product called P1 W1MAX . Coverage currently extends over major population centers such as the Klang Valley, Kinta Valley, Penang, Johor Baharu, Alor Setar, Kuantan, Kota Bharu and Kuala Terengganu.

Macedonia

• National licences have been awarded to 2 operators, Cosmoline Greece and Nexcom Macedonia to provide fixed WiMAX services, service roll out targeted by end of 2007.
• Regional licences have been awarded to Neotel, Cosmofon and Istel in 2007. Neotel implement and operate mobile WiMAX 3.5GHz network and provides services in the whole country.

Malta

• Three licences in 3.5 GHz band awarded by the Malta Communications Authority to Vodafone, Go Mobile, Cellcom in Oct 2005. Only Vodafone has commercially launched a broadband and VOIP service over WiMAX in July 2007 and will have country wide coverage by end November 2007.

Mexico

• In October 2005 Axtel commercialized WiMAX for Monterrey city.
• Ultranet2go provides WiMAX services in four states: Veracruz, Puebla, Tamaulipas and Aguascalientes.
• The University of Guadalajara, in collaboration with the Government of Jalisco; has begun the development of a WiMAX network in the state of Jalisco, which will provide free internet access to the population, as well as a better communications infrastructure for the government through a new intranet system.

Mongolia

• Since March 2005 company Ulusnet is providing WiMAX solution for Ulaanbaatar city.

Montenegro

• Licences have been awarded to 4 operators: T-Mobile, Broadband Montenegro, m:tel and Telenor Montenegro to provide WiMAX services; service rollout began in October 2007(m:tel).

N

The Netherlands

• On June 17, 2008 Worldmax launched its WiMAX service in Amsterdam on the 3.5 GHz band, the first commercial WiMAX network in Europe. The network is available anywhere inside the A10 motorway, a ringroad around Amsterdam and promises speeds up to 8 Mbit/s.

New Zealand

• CallPlus purchased 3.5 GHz WiMAX spectrum and are deploying Alvarion from Auckland North. This is run under the wholesale brand Blue Reach.

Nicaragua

• Russian Mobile WiMAX operator Yota (Scartel) (ru): December 2009 - test operations in Managua.

P

Pakistan

• Wateen WiMax - Coverage in 21 cities
• Mobilink Infinity
• Wi-Tribe
• Qubee

Poland

• Netia networks in about 50 Cities
• NASK ~5 Cities
• Crowley Data Poland
• SferaNET
• INEA

R

Russia

WiMAX operators are allowed to use 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz frequency bands; since outdoor UMTS-2100 is not allowed in Moscow, WiMAX is gaining widespread adoption for wireless broadband access in that region.

• Yota (Scartel) (ru) (IEEE 802.16e-2005, 2.5-2.7 GHz, yota.ru) is the first commercial Mobile WiMAX operator in Russia . As of Autumn 2009, commercial operation has commenced in Moscow and St. Petersburg with partial coverage of Moscow Oblast and Leningrad Oblast, and free public testing started in Ufa, Sochi and Krasnodar. A network is under construction in Samara. In the next 3 years, coverage should spread to 180 Russian cities and towns with population over 100 000; coverage of Moscow Oblast and Leningrad Oblast should improve as well.
• Comstar-WiMAX (Comstar-OTS) (ru) (IEEE 802.16e-2005, 2.5 GHz, wimax.comstar.ru) is the second commercial operator in Russia to begin operations; currently offers WiMAX services in Moscow only and does not plan any extension of coverage.

S

Spain

• Eurona small operator born in Catalunya and with deployments all over the country. Eurona deploys wimax 802.16d equipment giving services to rural areas and small cities with services from 18 euros for residencial users to simetric services of over 20 Mbps for companies. Eurona is also completint its offer with phone lines and VOip services.

• Euskaltel, the cable operator from the Basque Country. The initial project includes broadband to rural areas with prices between 22 euros a month for 300 kbit/s and 39 euros for 1 Mbit/s. A phone line costs additional 13.75 euros. [5] (in Spanish).
• Iberbanda bought by Telefónica in 2006, has the largest number of customers. Their contract free price is 39 euros for 512 kbit/s, 70 euros for 1 Mbit/s and additional 10 euros for a phone line. Iberbanda offers three contract options Avi (only internet for 39 euro/month), AviPack (internet and phone line for 39 euro/month) and AviPlus (internet and phone service only for businesses for 70 euro/month). [6].
• In the past, aLÓ offered WiMAX to corporate customers.
• Clearwire is now offering WiMAX service under the name Instanet to Málaga and will also be available to Seville soon.

Sri Lanka

• Dialog Telekom began commercial operations in late 2006 and offers speeds of up to 4 Mbit/s. Sri Lanka Telecom has also launched test transmission in certain areas. However there are problems as the local pay television operator Comet Cable uses some of the WiMAX bandwidths.
• Lanka Bell launched commercial operations in early 2008.
• SUNTEL has started the Wi-Max BroadBand
• Lanka Bell and Suntel, are already offering WiMAX services on the 3.5G spectrum in 375 base stations throughout the country
• SKYnetwork (subsidiary of Srilanka Telecom) also going to launch the WiMAX network by March 2010. Huawei technologies is providing the equipments for the network implementation.They are going to use 30M BAndwidth, 10M per each sector.

Sweden

• Telia Sonera has installed WiMAX in 21 counties.

U

USA

• Antelecom, Inc. Broadband provides WiMAX service using the 3.65Ghz range in Southern California (North Los Angeles and Southern Kern counties).
• AT&T Alaska is currently offering WiMAX technology in the 2.3 GHz range to deployments in the Anchorage & Juneau areas. AT&T previously had multiple WiMAX trials in other areas & seemed to be interested in using it as a last mile solution and still owns additional 2.3 GHz spectrum in some Southern states.
• Clearwire holds 2.5 GHz licenses in several regions, and is deploying a nationwide network to rival the other nationwide carriers and currently has commercial WiMAX deployments in 32 U.S. markets covering 41 million people and separately markets it under the brand CLEAR. At the end of 2008, Sprint Nextel merged their WiMAX operations (under the XOHM brand), with additional investment from five other technology companies to create the "new" Clearwire. Comcast, Sprint, and Time Warner Cable acting as wholesale providers are now providing access to the same underlying WiMAX network as well.
• Xanadoo operates WiMAX networks in Texas, Oklahoma, and Illinois. They also run Navini Networks-based pre-WiMAX networks & have holdings in the 2.5 GHz spectrum in multiple markets in the mid-west.
• Towerstream offers WiMAX-based internet service to businesses in 9 US cities, including Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Providence, San Francisco and Seattle.
• River Canyon Wireless Provides up to 2Mbit point to point for Monticello & Blanding, Utah. Also provides Motorola Canopy support for Moab & Green River, Utah
• Rainbow Broadband serves New York City businesses with WiMAX-based internet at speeds exceeding 100Mbit in Manhattan and surrounding boroughs (subject to line-of-sight limitations.)
• Northern Michigan University, working with Intel, Lenovo, Motorola and Cisco, has deployed a WiMAX network covering the City of Marquette, Michigan. Right now, most of the City of Marquette has solid access to the WiMAX network, as well as some points as far south as Chocolay Township and west as Marquette Township. Currently, students and faculty of NMU have access to the network; along with certain city personnel.

Z

Zimbabwe

• Broadlands Networks operates a Mobile WiMAX (802.16e-2005) network using Huawei Technologies equipment covering Harare, Bulawayo and Gweru. Broadlands has also acquired pre-802.16m WiMAX equipment which is being tried in Harare. Bulawayo & Gweru already have the service up and running.

See also

• Internet access worldwide - lists broadband (mostly on fixed-line) Internet access solutions worldwide
• Municipal wireless network - lists cities with Wi-Fi networks