Nicaragua Welcomes WiMAX

Nicaragua has begun to use the test WiMax wireless Internet access in Managua, the capital. The network was deployed in just three months and was presented at a press conference attended by representatives of the WiMAX Forum, Intel and Samsung, Yota strategic partners, vendor project manager.

The general manager of Intel's northern cone, Ricardo Olarte, said: "The penetration of broadband in Latin America is very low, and this is the reason why the initiative launched in Nicaragua will jump high on the adoption of new technologies that bring the country forward and generate a positive impact on people and businesses to improve the availability of competitiveness. "

In July 2009 it was announced the international tender for a 2.5-2.7 GHz spectrum in order to provide the entire territory of Nicaragua based communications services in the Mobile WiMAX standard. Yota became the winning bidder.

"The implementation of this project, which is basically a rapid transition of communications and fixed-line call unusual 4G technology, will support their use in a very short time frame to achieve a visible social effects in Nicaragua" said Dr. Mo Shakouri, vice president and board member of the WiMAX Forum.

Yota start its operations in Nicaragua with wireless internet service broadband. Later, the company plans to increase the number of services and focus on voice services, high quality demanded in the market.

"The record time of network deployment in Nicaragua shows that Yota has accumulated an outstanding experience, creating the network infrastructure based on proven equipment from Samsung. All these cases have enabled network Yota deploy anywhere in the world for extremely fast, "said Dr. Song, Samsung Electronics.

The services will be available to subscribers, both for end users and the companies: USB modems and routers. The instrument developed specifically for VoIP stationary Nicaragua, in addition to the range of low cost laptops with Intel integrated module (R) WiMAX / WiFi leading producer in the world, will be launched in the market of the country.

These tools are intended for marketing in the next spring when everyone can use freely Yota services before commercial use of the network, which will begin in mid 2010.

"We believe there is great potential within our project in Nicaragua. The demand for communications services in this country is enormous. According to recent studies, the country looks forward to the phone, in addition to some 300,000 new connections to the Internet," said Vice President of Business Development, Yota, Yegor Ivanov.

The WiMAX is a standard for wireless data transmission by radio waves similar to WiFi but with a much wider power. Thus, it is possible to bring the mobile Internet much further without deploying cable and access from terminals without SIM cards, as opposed to 3G connections as HSPA.