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Delta Telecom to present WiMAX-mobile service next month

15 April 2009 15:56 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Aynur â€“ Veliyeva â€“ APA-Economics. Under a contract won from Delta Telecom, a fast growing service provider in the Caucasus region, Alcatel-Lucent is deploying Azerbaijanâ€™s first commercial WiMAX 802.16e-2005 (Rev-e) network.

This new network will provide Delta Telecomâ€™s customers with high-speed Internet access as well as other data services and voice over IP (VoIP).

It accommodates stationary, nomadic and mobile applications and will complement Delta Telecomâ€™s existing fixed broadband services in sparsely populated areas, where technical and economic factors sometimes make fixed broadband deployments impractical.
Delta Telecom said the installation of base stations is on track of completion.

More than 20 base stations have been installed in Baku, Absheron and Sumgait. The installation of necessary infrastructure will soon be complete in Southern and Northern regions of the country.

This technology enables to get connected even while cruising at 120km-h in a car.

The service is slated for presentation in late May.

About Delta Telecom

Delta Telecom is the leading telecom operator in the Caucasus region. The company provides professional telecommunication and communication services on the basis of the license 001514 given on December 30, 2005 by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan Republic. Delta Telecom owns the largest Internet backbone network in the region. The backbone networkâ€™s platform is based modern technologies provides professional IP backbone services to all ISPs of Azerbaijan and more than 78% of Georgia.

The companyâ€™s DWDM network infrastructure covers all regional centers and international gates. Interconnectionâ€™s capacity with neighbor countries reached to tens gigabit per second. More than 87% of local Backhauling services for mobile operators, ISPs, banks and more commercial organizations proving over DWDM/SDH infrastructure. Delta Telecomâ€™s Carrier Ethernet and Metro Ethernet network infrastructure has the capability to accommodate corporate networks, DATA services, and professional IP/MPLS services. This network infrastructure is the main IP transmission solution for local ISPs for IP Backbone services.

For developing ICT in regional and mountainous areas Delta Telecomâ€™s Satellite Backbone services is a flexible solution. The platform based DVB-RCS technologies provides professional telephony services to hundreds of villages in mountainous areas. More than three thousand VSAT stations provide high-speed Internet, data and telephony services in the regions inaccessible over terrestrial infrastructures. The main slogan of Delta telecom is to follow new modern technologies. The company continues to keep a leading position in modern technologies implementation and was the first to implement Pre WiMAX, 802.16d in the region also is Delta Telecomâ€™s practice. Delta Telecomâ€™s achievements will also include being the first to deploy mobile WiMAX and IMS technologies.