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Mobile WiMAX Network Soft-Launched in Tokyo

Japan’s UQ Communications has announced that it will launch a Mobile WiMAX network covering Tokyo (all 23 wards), Yokohama, and Kawasaki by the end of this month. The service will be sold under the UQ WiMAX brand name. The company is however starting a “soft-launch” from today and is recruiting friendly customers to test the service. The service will be launched with a flat-rate monthly fee of 4,480 yen (US$50) – although the service will be free until July.

When the service starts, antennas will also be installed in 44 railway stations in the metropolitan area, on the Yamanote Line and other lines operated by East Japan Railway. By the end of June 2009, the service area will be extended to include Nagoya and Osaka. // more

Posted 04 Feb 2009 by narmadi
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Japanese WiMAX Network Launched in Okinawa

Japan’s Okinawa Telemessage, a broadband access service provider has launched a WiMAX Network using Airspan solutions. Beginning with Nanjo City, Okinawa Telemessage will provide more than 500,000 households in Okinawa Prefecture with high-speed broadband access. Operating in the 4.95 GHz frequency band, the WiMAX network deployment is well underway and, upon completion, will consist of more than two hundred Airspan base stations spread over Okinawa Island.

This project benefitted from Japan’s government broadband policy. The government’s ‘u-Japan’ broadband strategy provides for money or tax incentives to cities to deploy broadband with the hopes of completing full broadband coverage to the entire nation by 2010. Nanjo City provided Okinawa Telemessage with roof-top property for placement of base stations, as well as city-owned fiber optic backhauling. // more

Posted 31 Dec 2008 by narmadi
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