Launched a plan of municipal Internet access for SMEs and citizens by WiMAX

Alvarion ® Ltd., a global leader in the design, development and supply of radio solutions and WiMAX solutions, and WiMAX Global Access, are collaborating to implement a plan of municipal Internet access it provides to citizens and SMEs the opportunity to contract services for broadband and telephony at a price competitive with WiMAX technology. Under the initiative, municipalities can deploy a telecommunications network and provide Internet access to the entire population and businesses, thus solving problems of exclusion that are occurring in different municipalities of the Spanish geography.

The plan takes advantage of WiMAX technology capable of providing wireless broadband high speed even in areas of difficult access from the topographical point of view. After a detailed review of all solutions on the market WiMAX, WiMAX Global Access has opted for Alvarion products that have proven to provide maximum flexibility, security and quality of radio services even in extreme environments where wiring can not be a alternative.

The idea has arisen to detect the need to facilitate Internet access in small and medium municipalities. With the help of WiMAX technology from Alvarion, WiMAX Global Access offers municipalities the opportunity not only to control and manage their telecommunications processes, but also guarantees access to the Internet to businesses and citizens. Today, is developing two types of proposal: in the municipalities that have availability to subsidize broadband usage, provides an Internet access service 3MB for 10 euros, in cases where the council can not subsidize the service is being implemented Wi-Fi hotspot with free access for everyone.

"Our goal is to provide Internet access to high quality about 300 municipalities by the end of 2010," said Darrell Singht responsible for expansion of WIMAX GLOBAL ACCESS. "It would be councils that now have no means to provide universal Internet as a service. Therefore, we believe that thanks to wireless broadband with Alvarion's WiMAX technology we are filling a void that exists in the market. We have already started work with municipalities in Catalonia where it is deploying the WiMAX network and Wi-Fi that will provide Internet and telephony services. Then the plan will expand to the Valencia, Castellón and the rest of Spanish territory. "

"In Spain, we are still in the queue of developed countries regarding penetration and price of broadband services - something that is already being planned to correct the government's proposal to convert the Internet offer to 1MB at an affordable price universal service from 2011, "notes Carlos Martinez, Director of Channel Alvarion in Spain. "In this sense, the initiative for Global Access WiMAX is the less revolutionary because it will make available as early as next year's free or very affordable cost to all those councils that now have no resources to make access to the Internet the entire population in a fundamental right. "

The delegations from Central and municipalities will be connected to the core of the WiMAX network and may implement other services such as VoIP, video surveillance or access to broadband for the rest of the population.