SAMSUNG and TVA to Deliver Mobile WiMAX Services to Brazil

Samsung Electronics and TVA Sistema de Televisao announced they have signed a contract to commercialize Mobile WiMAX platform in Brazil. TVA plans to commercialize Mobile WiMAX services in Curitiba first, Parana State in south of Brazil, from 1st half of 2007, with more cities following over the next years.

Under the contract, Samsung will initially supply Mobile WiMAX modems, base stations and other system hardware, and in the near future, will provide PCMCIA cards and terminals for service portability.

Samsung has already begun deployment of a Mobile WiMAX platform in Venezuela and will bring this platform to Brazil, the largest market in Latin America. Mobile WiMAX platform offers wireless high-speed data communications, compliant with IEEE 802.16e standard, and delivers low cost data transmission.

"Samsung is very excited for the debut of our next generation technology in Latin America. TVA's initiative to bring Mobile WiMAX commercial is an important step to the globalization of this newest technology," said Kwansoo Lee, Executive Vice President of Telecommunication Systems Division, Samsung Electronics.

Mobile WiMAX service had been launched in Korean market in May 2006 and is expanding to other worldwide markets. Samsung is currently supplying equipment and is supporting commercialization of the technology in Europe (the UK, Italy and Croatia), North America (the U.S.), South America (Venezuela and now Brazil) and Asia (Japan).