Max Telecom Selects Navini for Nationwide WiMAX Network in Bulgaria
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Mobile WiMAX 802.16e to cover 7.5 million in 2007
RICHARDSON, Texas and SOFIA, Bulgaria, Jan. 17 -- Max Telecom, Bulgaria's telecommunications operator with licenses for a nationwide WiMAX network, will be using mobile WiMAX 802.16e equipment from Navini Networks, the global leader(1) in providing plug-n-play personal broadband wireless access solutions with the most experience in commercial deployments.
Max Telecom will launch service in the capital -- Sofia -- with plans to expand nationwide in Bulgaria during 2007. They will be using WiMAX to provide both business and residential services, offering enabling services such as VOIP, DSL equivalent, and VPNs (both voice and data) and video connectivity for applications such as surveillance.
"We selected Navini due to their experience, customer base and proven technology," said Krassimir Stoitcheff, CEO, Max Telecom. "We conducted a live field trial of multiple vendors technology including some of the bigger names, as a part of our evaluation process and were impressed by the performance advantages of Navini's Smart beamforming technology."
"Max Telecom is bringing mobile WiMAX 802.16e to Eastern Europe in a big way," said Roger Dorf, Navini's president and CEO. "We are delighted to have been selected, especially considering the competition."
"Bulgaria's 7.5 million people represent an immense opportunity for portable high speed wireless internet," added Stoitcheff. "Rather than event- driven pricing, we plan to offer fixed price data subscriptions with VOIP bundled. Once consumers in Bulgaria experience personal broadband, it will change their lifestyles, their behaviors."
The deployment features Navini's Ripwave(TM) MX8 platform, which will be certified for 802.16e mobile WiMAX with Navini's Smart WiMAX(TM) solution. Smart WiMAX(TM) combines the Smart Beamforming technology currently in commercial service around the world, with beamformed MIMO, which can double the data throughput for WiMAX subscribers.
About Max Telecom:
Max Telecom is a new generation telecommunication company, deploying nation-wide network moving towards mobile WiMAX technology. Max Telecom provides full range of fast, high quality, reliable and cost effective telecommunication products and services, mobile or fixed - Internet access, VPNs, VOIP, video and IPTV. The ambition is to develop a competitive service offering, providing customers high quality, up-to-date services making use of the latest in New Generation Network technology coupled to an advanced billing system (both post and pre pay), and a state-of-the art call centre.
More information about Max Telecom can be found at www.maxtelecom.bg/ or contact info@maxtelecom.bg
http://www.maxtelecom.bg
About Navini Networks:
Navini Networks is the leader in providing portable, plug-n-play broadband wireless access solutions, with the largest commercial deployments in the world, over 70 commercial networks in 6 continents and strategic partnerships with industry leaders. Navini is the only company that has the patented Smart Beamforming technology, enabling personal broadband for the mass market today, with a seamless upgrade to the Mobile WiMAX standard to deliver Smart WiMAX(TM). (Smart WiMAX(TM) is the combination of mobile WiMAX with Smart Beamforming & MIMO). Navini's Ripwave® MX portable, zero-install(TM), non- line-of-sight (NLOS) solution consists of customer modems, base stations, and element management systems (EMS) that run in the full range of spectrums with software upgrades to the IEEE 802.16e standard.
Navini Networks is a principal member of the WiMAX Forum and the IEEE 802.16e committee. Headquartered in Richardson, Texas.
http://www.navini.com
(1) "State of the Market Wireless Broadband Analysis Report 2006 - 2010 &
SkyLight Research Wireless Broadband Five Year Forecast 2006 - 2010"
by SkyLight Research (published June 2006)
Source: Navini Networks
CONTACT:
Maryvonne Tubb,
+1-972-852-4247,
mtubb@navini.com for Navini Networks
Web site:
http://www.navini.com/
http://www.maxtelecom.bg/
