Comprehensive UK WiMax Rollout Could be Ruled Out
A pan-UK advanced mobile broadband service based on the WiMax technology is on the verge of jeopardy due to the lack of interest of the five major mobile broadband providers in the country. This is reported to be the view point of Bluenowhere, the municipal wholesale wireless network operator.
This news would not be a surprise for the keen broadband segment observers in the United Kingdom, for the fact that at present the predominant mobile broadband suppliers were avidly wooing the LTE (Long Term Technology), which had shown a great promise in trials that were carried out in Madstone, Kent.
Currently, the WiMax technology has been engaged in to certain selected places as well as town centres that were deprived of the comforts a fixed-line broadband service. Nevertheless, there are many analysts who think that WiMax can still contribute its part in the filling of gaps in the broadband network of the country.
Even so, the communications minister Lord Carter has hardly mentioned this technology in the Digital Britain final report delivered a month back. According to Bluenowhere that is an M-WAG member, besides being a wireless network operator, the trials of WiMax technology had only been successful for ‘niche’ applications. This was reported by Zdnet.Co.UK, a technology website.
The chief executive of the operator, Harry Aldridge told the website that something that impedes a nationwide rollout of the WiMax technology is the situation that no major operator was backing it at present. He added that M-WAG (Mobile WiMax Acceleration Group) did not expect as well that any existing mobile broadband provider would accept WiMax as their 4G broadband solution.
