14 DAY TRIAL // Vodafone has decided to join the other almost 500 companies that are part of the WiMAX Forum. This organization looks to promote and certify interoperable WiMAX products for bringing the best of them out on the market.
The WiMAX Forum has just announced that Vodafone is now part of it and will engage in supporting all this organization's efforts to provide this technology at high standards. WiMAX technology is capable of allowing high-speed internet access from laptops and other mobile devices over large distances.
This technology's possibilities surpass those of previous technologies, such as Wi-Fi. Because of this, it is important for providers to make sure that it comes at best performances and that producers receive the needed support for properly introducing it at high standards.
"Our membership of the WiMAX Forum will complement our existing memberships of other key industry bodies such as the GSMA, 3GPP and the Next Generation Mobile Network initiative", considers Steve Pusey, Global Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone. He also wanted to emphasize the fact that "Vodafone remains technology neutral as far as our future network options are concerned, and joining the WiMAX Forum is a logical step as we seek to evaluate the full capabilities and potential of this technology".
WiMAX technology proves to be an excellent solution especially for people living in areas where they lack access to telecoms or the Internet, which makes a good market for Vodafone to look into. At this point, 470 companies have already joined this Forum. Almost 150 of them are operators supportive for this technology.
The WiMAX Forum is an industry-led non-profit organization that already includes some of the most important companies in the telecom and mobile technology industry. WiMAX is at this point only at the beginning of its introduction as the main wireless data transmission solution, which gives reason to these companies' decision to join forces in deploying it at a large scale.