China Wi-Max Communications, today announced that one of its wholly-owned foreign entity companies has “lit” its fiber ring in Beijing with full commercial operation is expected to begin in Beijing during the first quarter of 2010. The Company plans to expand into ten of the largest cities in China. In each city, China Wi-Max will purchase and deliver a fiber optic network with a wireless overlay in the most attractive areas to connect bandwidth-hungry business customers.
China Wi-Max has ten initial target markets (Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Dalian, Qingdao, Guangzhou, Xi’an, and Chongqing), which represent approximately eight percent of the population of China, or 100 million people.
Through local Chinese partners, China Wi-Max will use large blocks of 5.8GHz wireless spectrum in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou. With a wireless receiver on top of a customer’s building, and within range of a corresponding wireless receiver on the Company’s network, China Wi-Max will be able to provide broadband connections to buildings within 10 miles of its actual fiber.
The Company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. It was formed to take advantage of the rapidly expanding wireless and landline communications needs in China.
Meanwhile, Huawei has announced the deployment of the world’s first TD-LTE/SAE trial network for China Mobile. This new network reportedly has a download speed of up to 29Mb/s and will be used for 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
China Mobile has committed to TD-SCDMA, which is similar to CDMA but uses only one channel and Time Division. TD-LTE, like TD-SCDMA uses time division, but will use the LTE protocol. It’s similar to plain vanilla WiMAX.
China has decided to allocate spectrum for 3G while essentially ignoring WiMAX, says Wimax.com. They limit WiMax to the fixed 3.5GHz flavor. China’s refusal to release 2.3GH, 2.5GHz or more 3.5GHz spectrum for BWA and WiMAX differs from the situation in the other (BRIC) countries, Brazil, Russia and India, where lobbyists from the 2 opposing camps of 3G and WiMAX have repeatedly delayed services.
