TAG | WiMIN or WiMAX: Stacks of WiMAX facts? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 27 March 2008 | |
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Page 4 of 4 Rob Moore then asked “Why is OPEL taking so long to roll out WiMAX when they have all those taxpayer funds?”Hackett continued: “I hope they do - because I personally think OPEL is the best hope for high quality terrestrial broadband and voice services for the very large number of people in its intended footprint, and its mandated wholesale access model stands in stark contrast to the monopolistic retail-at-all-costs stance of Telstra in its sale of the Next G service (at $150 per Gb, uploads downloads).” Rob Moore then asked “Why didn’t OPEL choose Airspan?” To which Hackett replied: “I haven't read any statement of the vendor chosen by OPEL - until the Federal government actually pay them the money they have agreed - until they definitely agree to honour their side of the contract that was signed before the last election - OPEL are likely to be understandably unable to announce their choice of vendor.” Hackett continued: “I hope its Airspan, personally, because we've found their equipment to perfom better than anyone elses' in ways that matter to us (including, in these energy conscious times, being very power efficient - the Airspan equipment is solar powered on most of our remote tower sites, and the costs of that remote power installation would have been massively higher if we'd used a more energy-hungry radio vendor).” Hackett ended by noting: “But - again - to my knowledge OPEL haven't announced their vendor yet, so that question is a moot one to date. Hope that helps”. So, it would appear that Buzz Broadband’s concerns have been comprehensively discounted by Airspan and Nortel's Rob Inshaw, with Internode firmly saying their implementation has absolutely gone to plan. The war between WiMAX and HSPA/LTE technologies is far from over, or decided, it seems, with the true battle yet to really begin.
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