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Article: Has the age of fixed wireless broadband services arrived in the Arab World? By end of March 2009, six Arab countries had eleven commercially launched.
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- Albawaba.com
- Article date:
- April 15, 2009
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Summary: By end of March 2009, WiMAX was commercially available in Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia while several operators in many Arab countries have started testing the service.
WiMAX stands for World Interoperability for Microwave Access. WiMAX/IEEE 802.16 is a global standard-based technology for Broadband Wireless Access. WiMAX vendors state that WiMAX systems are able to cover a large geographical area, up to 50 km and to deliver significant bandwidth to end-users at up to 72 Mbps. According to the WiMAX forum, WiMAX provides coverage economically and combines both Line of Sight (LOS) and None Line of Sight (NLOS) coverage. With ...