TVA, one of the leading pay TV companies in Brazil, is building a WiMAX trial network based on solutions and services from Nortel. It’s in preparation for future large-scale deployment of wireless broadband access services across Latin America´s largest market.
Nortel says its mobile MIMO-powered WiMAX (802.16e) solution will allow carriers like TVA to quickly and cost-effectively deliver true high-speed broadband access, mobile TV and video, VoIP, streaming media, data applications and mobile electronic commerce. The two companies announced a trial agreement at a press event held in Sao Paulo this week. The companies will carry out tests for data transfer of up to 3Mbps per user, for use from both fixed and mobile devices, testing also for moving access at up to 120km/h.
Samsung will produce the communication towers, software and a line of end-user devices designed specifically for this service. The idea is for notebooks and PDAs to be used for connection and eventually devices with convergent communications such as cell phones.
In Brazil, the frequency band assigned for WiMax is 3.5Ghz. TVA plans to offer the service using its multi-channel multipoint distribution service (MMDS) license that it currently uses for providing paid television services.
The Federative Republic of Brazil is the largest and most populous country in South America and the fifth largest in the world in both area and population. São Paulo has an area of 1,523 square kilometres (588 sq. miles) with a population of just over 11 million, the largest and most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere.
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