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Intel Success Brief
WiMAX Helps Service Providers Serve Millions of New Customers
Historically, customers in rural and underserved areas have suffered from limited access to online information – information that could lead to social and economic development. WiMAX broadband wireless networks provide a unique and cost-effective way to reach these millions of potential customers.
WiMAX makes it feasible – and profitable – to deliver the equivalent of cable or Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Internet access to large geographical regions around the world. The potential market segment for these services is astounding, as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estimates only 30 percent of the world’s villages currently have any kind of connection – even by telephone – to the rest of the world.
Already, service providers are benefiting from deployment of 802.16-2004 networks for fixed WiMAX applications, as well as “last-mile” access and cellular backhaul. WiMAX can be deployed quickly and inexpensively, and overcomes the cost, physical distance, and performance limitations of other technologies such as ADSL and Line of Site (LOS) microwave links.
With the proliferation of Intel-based WiMAX technology, service providers offering high-bandwidth, low-cost WiMAX connections can attract new users and serve diverse market segments, helping millions of customers improve their businesses and their lives.
Measures of Success:
Germany’s MAXXonair Reaches New Market Segments with WiMAX
Deutsche Breitband Dienste GmbH (DBD), a service provider based in Heidelberg, Germany, has been offering WiMAX broadband Internet access through its MAXXonair brand since August 2005. The cost-effective, easily deployed WiMAX network helps the company provide new services that attract both private users and businesses.
In the German capital Berlin, in the district of Pankow, MAXXonair service reaches customers like Marco Knoblauch, the managing director of a real estate agency – EURIX GmbH & Co. KG – who had been using a slower connection before switching to WiMAX. The long upload times, and resultant backlogs in office work, almost caused the business to move its office. “This would have created additional costs for us, and it would have meant the loss of 11 jobs for the district of Pankow”, Knoblauch said.
With MAXXonair premium service, Knoblauch’s company now spends less per month and enjoys 3.5 Mb/s download speeds, 768 Kb/s upload speeds, and 99.5 percent availability. “Thanks to MAXXonair, we can now stay in Pankow”, Knoblauch said. “The transfer of data takes only a few seconds, and we save about 5,000 euro a year.”
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„Until I moved to Berlin-Pankow,
where there was
no DSL service available, I never realized how important broadband Internet access is to a selfemployed person. Now,
with DBD’s fixed
WiMAX service,
I finally have broadband access – and an efficient home office – once more.“
Heike Bayer-Wenzel Independent Marketing Consultant Pankow, Germany