Main Street Broadband has granted a contract to Alvarion for a rural WiMAX deployment in Florida and Georgia. Main Street Broadband has received one of the largest Rural Utilities Service (RUS) funded projects in the U.S. The RUS, a fund doled out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, already has $1 billion in its budget for loans to rural broadband projects. Under the newly enacted stimulus bill, the RUS receives another $2.5 billion to give out as loans.
Alvarion will be deploying its 802.16e BreezeMAX base stations and customer premise equipment (CPE) in the formal RUS-funded project with Main Street Broadband. The deployment will happen in the 2.3/2.5/3.65 GHz frequency bands.
For more:
- see this release [1]
Related articles:
Vendors pledge support for WiMAX [2]
Alvarion: [3] We want our money back from Nortel
Alvarion [4] ramps up Latin American customers
Links:
[1] http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/alvarion-selected-main-street-broadband-wimax-network-deployment-us-alvarion-receives
[2] http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/vendors-pledge-support-wimax/2009-02-18
[3] http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/alvarion-we-want-our-money-back-nortel/2009-02-12
[4] http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/emerging-markets/2008-12-07