3.5 Organization list of deployed WiMAX

All around the world, a mass of organizations or corporations deployed WiMAX standard as there application to cater for the wireless network access requirement and technology. Here I list the organizations as continents classification simply. The information mainly comes from Wikipedia [1].

Europe:

Austria - WiMAX Telecom holds 3.5 GHz licences for the entire country.

Belgium - Clearwire covers mainly Brussels.

Bulgaria - Max Telecom Ltd. and Trans Telecom holds a class A license in the 3.5 GHz band (2x21 MHz) and has deployed nation-wide network moving towards mobile WiMAX technology; Nexcom Bulgaria, Mtel and Carrier BG hold class B licenses.

Crotia - Divide into twenty counties and capital Zagreb, and 4 frequency blocks every county; VIPnet and OiV hold 3.5 GHz licences for the capital Zagreb.

Denmark - A few companies are using WiMAX with differen frequencies depite of government reluctance to allow private companies to use WiMAX frequency ranges. The largest cities are covered by Clearwire.

Estonia - A total of 4 licenses in the 3.5 - 3.6 GHz range has been issued to five companies. Norby Telecom, Baltic Broadband and Tele2 have national-wide licenses and Levira. Elion share the same frequency.

Finland - Fifteen WiMAX operators in Finland spread throughout the country. SuomiCom has partial coverage in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.

France - Iliad is currently the only owner of a national level license which is the owner of the French ISP; Altitude Telecom deployed WiMAX in rural areas of France; Any-Port uses unlicensed 2.4 and 5.4 GHz bands to provide wireless broadband to the yachting community on the French, Italian and Spanish Rivieras.

Germany - Deutsche Breitband Dienste (DBD), start its commercial WiMAX operation in Berlin in Nov. 2005 under its brand MAXXonair using WiMAX from airspan networks. Several networks in some other cities were deployed till now. It uses 3.5 GHz WLL licenses with WiMAX technology. Clearwire, Inquam and DBD now hold licenses for the entire country.

Greece - OTE has a pilot WiMAX network in operation in Mount Athos and is planning nationside deployment.

Ireland - National University of Ireland, Maynooth Public Mobile WiMAX (802.16e) Network in July 2008; then the Intel Ireland WiMAX Trials.

Italy - Italian Ministry of Defense currently holds the 3.5 GHz band, and is about to free the band through auctions in order to let the Government sell licences. All licenses available were awarded to different operators in an auction ended on February 2008.

Malta - There are three licences in 3.5 GHz band awarded by the Malta Communications Authority to Vodafone, Go Mobile, Cellcom in Oct 2005. Only Vodafone has commercially launched a broadband and VOIP service over WiMax in July 2007.

Netherlands - Worldmax has announced it will deployed mobile WiMAX in the 3.5GHz band.

Poland - Neta network in about 50 cities; NASK in 5 cities; and so on.

Russia - Russian leader of wireless broadband Enforta operates the network in 35 largest capitals of Russia with total popular 50M, uses Alvarion and InfiNet Wireless equipment for its WiMAX network; Mirkin Group aims to provide Free WiMAX connection for individual use. Summa Telecom currently holds national 2.5-2.7GHz license; Synterra WiMAX uses equipment from Nextnet Wireless for its WiMAX network in Moscow region.

Slovakia - WiMAX Telecom holds 3.5 GHz license.

Slovenia - APEK has issued two WiMAX licences on Oct. 2006: Telekom Slovenije connected first WiMAX broadband user on March, 2007; Tok telekomunikacije sold to the American company Winvest Inc. .

Sweden - Telia Sonera has installed WiMAX in 21 counties.

UK - Wi-Manx isle of Man based service provider, holds a 3.6-3.8 GHz licence and was the first to launch a commercial licensed WiMAX service in the UK; FREEDOM4 holds 3.6 GHz licensed spectrum and is deploying WiMAX throughout the UK; UK Broadband a subsidiary of PCCW, owns 3.5 GHz licences; BT is planning to install six WiMAX antennas and associated equipment on the tallest building in Newcastle on Tyne; Metranet, Brighton provide connectivity to Brighton and Hovn City Council and the University of Sussex amongst others; Nomad Digital and T-Mobile have implemented a trackside WiMAX network on the London to Brighton railway line.

Ukraine - Ukrainian High Technologies Ltd. holds the license for 3.4-3.7 GHz range and currently operates WiMAX networks in Kiev and Kharkiv based on Intel PRO/Wireless 5116 client terminals.

America

Bolivia - Telecel S.A holds a lilcence in the 3.5 GHz band and deployed a WiMAX network in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in 2007 for internet broadband services.

Brazil - A few Brazilian companies already have rights to important parts of the WiMAX spectrum, both at 2.5 GHz (MMDS band) and 3.5 GHz. Brazilian Agency of Telecommunications to sell licences for WiMAX.

Canada - MetroBridge Networks serves businesses in British Columbia with connections up to 3 Mbit/s with >7500 km² of coverage area; Sogetel offer WiMAX connection for Nicolet- Yamaska and St-Hyacinthe (MRC Maskoutain) in Quebec; Primus Canada and Mipps Inc. are jointly conducting WiMAX IEEE 802.16e-2005 (3.5 GHz) trials in Hamilton, Ontario, using Alcatel-Lucent's new WiMAX equipment; MDS Wireless owns and operates one of the largest WiMax networks in Southern Ontario providing internet services to residential and business users.

Colombia - Orbitel launched in Cali the first WiMAX network of Colombia in July 2006; Colombian company Telecom launched a PRE-WiMAX network in Bucaramanga. Orbitel, ETB and Telecom hold 3.5 GHz licences for the entire country in January 20 2006; In November 23, 2006 Cable Union de Occidente, Avantel and others won licences to operate WiMax in several regions of Colombia.

Costa Rica - Radiografica Costarricense S.A. started offering the service on the second week of 2008; QTEL Costa Rica has deployed a national long-haul backbone throughout the entire country.
Mexico - Axtel commercizlized WiMAX for Monterrey city in Oct. 2005; Ultranet2go provides WiMAX services in four states.

Panama - WIPET is the first Company to deploy a WiMax network in Panama beginning in January of 2008 and covering Panama City and Coronado Beach.

Paraguay - Tigo Banda Ancha is currently using a WiMAX network; Hipuu / Nucleo was the first to deploy a WiMax network in Paraguay. They use RedMAX from Redline Communications.

Peru - Telmex x-plor is currently using a WiMAX network offering voice and data services in many cities.

USA - DigitalBridge Communications launched the first commercially available WiMAX network in the United States in 2007 under the name BridgeMAXX and holds 2.5 GHz licenses in several regions; Nth Air holds a nationwide 3.65 GHz license. Sprint Nextel holds licences in the 2.5 GHz band covering most of the U.S. Sprint plans to build a "Nationwide advanced wireless broadband network expected to cover 100 million people in 2008." Clearwire holds 2.5 GHz licences in several regions, and is running a test market in the Northwestern United States in preparation to deploy a nationwide network to rival the other nationwide carriers. In May 2008, Sprint Nextel announced a plan to merge their WiMax operation under the Clearwire name, with additional
investment from five other technology companies. NextWave Wireless holds licences in the 1.7 GHz and 2.1 GHz band. Xanadoo operates Navini Networks-based pre-WiMax networks in the 2.5 GHz spectrum in 6 markets in the midwest. Open Range Communications will build a 17-state WiMAX network providing wireless broadband to 500+ un-served and underserved rural American communities. Conterra, RazzoLink and Quad-Cities Online in some other cities also use WiMAX based network.

Venezuela - Movilmax has deployed Wimax to the IEEE 802.16e standard in Caracas and is the first which operates in 2.5 GHz.

Asia Pacific

Australia - Unwired holds licences in the 3.5 GHz and 2.3 GHz bands, and has plans to build a mobile WiMax network on the 2.3 GHz band once WiMax-Forum-certified hardware is available. This will be a replacement to its proprietary fixed wireless system which uses the 3.5 GHz band. Austar holds licences in the 3.5 GHz and 2.3 GHz bands; The services provider more recently ran an extensive trial of a standard mobile WiMAX solution provided by Nortel. Digital River Networks are further deploying fixed WiMAX network in areas of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria with extensive field trials operating in the suburbs of Melbourne; The company has existing wireless network platforms in 34 regional areas of Australia which will be converted to Wi-Max before June 2009.

Bahrain - Zain Covers the Kingdom of Bahrain and has used WiMAX for High Speed Internet under the product Zain@Home.

China - Spectrum is the impediment to deployments in China. However some progress has been made but deployments are being made under the radar of government supervision of spectrum regulation and sponsorship of TD-SCDMA.

India - Though India do not have any B2C WiMax network few companies are doing on experimental basis, some of them are: Reliance Launches WiMAX Services for consumers in Bangalore & Pune on July 4th; VSNL launched India's First WiMAX services; BSNL launches WiMax services in 10 cities across India, etc.

Iran - Laser Telecom Based on 802.16d, the first wimax Network deployed in Iran, with 80% coverage of Tehran. Provides VPN Service to Banks and Insurance companies. Pars-Online Based on 802.16e.

Japan - YOZAN Inc. uses WiMAX as a backbone for its public Wi-Fi service.

Jordan - Umniah Mobile Company recently acquired a WiMAX license in the 3.5 band.

Malaysia - Packet One Networks is ready to lead the market by being the first to deploy on the WiMAX 2.3 GHz spectrum in the region and to establish one of the world’s largest mobile WiMAX 2.3 GHz networks.

New Zealand - nzwireless is deploying WiMAX in the 3.5 GHz spectrum for fixed installation, currently covering the Wellington CBD; CallPlus have purchased nationwide 3.5 GHz WiMAX frequency in the recent Government auction. This is run under the wholesale brand Blue Reach.
Natcom is deploying a nationwide 2.5 GHz WiMAX.

Pakistan - Currently, Pakistan has the largest fully functional Wimax network in the world. Wateen Telecom installed the network (with an initial rollout in seventeen cities) throughout Pakistan using Motorola hardware. Wateen Deployed world's first and largest nationwide WiMAX network and Mobilink Infinity Pakistan's Second WiMax network, etc.

Singapore - QMax has deployed and commercialized on 2.3 GHz licenses. Pacific Internet has launched @irpower for enterprise users on 2.5 GHz licenses.

South Korea - WiBro is served by KT and SK Telecom

Taiwan (of Chinese) - Chunghwa Telecom announced it will partner with Nortel to build Taiwan's first integrated local government mobile WiMAX network in Yilan, providing county-wide broadband wireless access. It will be based on IEEE 802.16e.

UAE - etisalatUAE based provider currently has Wi-max in the Umm-Suqeim region of Dubai. However this is not yet a public service and is only given to those customers who the tele-communications provider can not allocate an ISDN or Broadband service.

Africa

Angola - MSTelcom is deploying a nationwide project at 2.5 GHz. About 60% of Luanda is covered.

Congo - Elix has deployed a citywide WiMAX network in the city of Kinshasa, using licensed spectrum at 3.5 GHz.

Congo, Democratic Republic of - GLNet operates a citywide 802.16d Fixed WiMAX network in the city of Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, using the licensed spectrum of 3.5 GHz.

Egypt - NTRA issues WiMax licensed bands to companies requiring license for using the technology for data transfer.

Ethiopia - The incumbent operator ETC has deployed a fixed WiMAX network in the capital city of Addis Abeba using the 3.5 GHz band.

Kenya - AccessKenya has used WiMAX for its broadband residential service. Kenya Data Networks has used WiMAX for schools in remote areas and plans to provide WiMAX service in several cities.

Liberia - Comium offers internet service over WiMAX using Navini Networks in the Monrovia area.

Libya - Libya Telecom & Technology, the national Internet Service Provider in Libya plans to deploy the first commercial WIMAX network based on the 802.16e-2005 WiMAX standard in Libya. LTT plans to launch the commercial service on the network in September 2008.

Namibia - MWEB Namibia started (December 2006) deploying WiMAX in the 3.3 GHz spectrum currently covering the Windhoek area.

Nigeria - XS Broadband has WiMAX licenses for 24 of the 36 Nigerian states, including the major cities. Networks have been deployed in most major cities to serve banks, enterprises and other applications.

South Africa - Telecoms Regulator ICASA has only issued four licences for commercial WiMax services: to wireless broadband solutions provider iBurst, state-owned signal distributor Sentech, second network operator Neotel, Telkom, all on the 3.5 GHz band.

The information I gave only includes the issues of parts of the countries, actually, the companies in most countries all over the world had their commercial or technologies behaviors or contact to WiMAX area. It makes that WiMAX spread over the world with high speed and the interested companies realized its benefit and foreground, especially in developing countries.

Reference:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deployed_WiMAX_networks