TFL’s CMDA looks like the odd one in the mix and if it ought to be running the Internet race, well, it is being marketed mainly as a voice pusher at the moment in the form of TFL’s Easy Tel product.

So, I am very interested in this one and how it is supposed to position TFL in the Internet market.

I look forward to reading your interview with them.

Just came back to this post after spending some time off the web.

The parent company of Unwired Fiji is listed on the South Pacific Stock Exchange and made this press release last week. You can probably find out more here on Unwired new product:

http://www.spse.com.fj/uploads/unwired__launches_pure_wimax_network.pdf

I haven’t seen any article in the local media on the coverage. But on their website: http://www.unwired.com.fj/ they reveal coverage areas to be between Lami and Nausori corridor. That’s still a few kilometers out of the capital Suva, so it seems that coverage is Suva and the greater Suva area.

And hey CW, if you read through this Unwired press release, they talk about being the first to offer the first truly mobile WiMAX network…and makes reference to how various claims have been made by companies who say they offer the same thing.

Funnily, this was the very same thing the Kidanet people said when they launched their WiMax and I remember hearing the same thing from Connect when they launched a while back.

I’m just wondering, isn’t 802.16e just WiMAX, period? I mean what’s the difference between an 802.16e WiMax network and one that’s “the first truly mobile Wimax network”?

Basically, it depends on what services TFL hopes to offer. CDMA 2000 is considered a 2.5g technology, which will limit it for delivering mobile broadband.

Expect the ATH family and Digicel to back the LTE family and others to be behind WiMAX.

WiMAX is and will remain a popular option for service providers developing/majority world countries, because it is cheaper to deploy.

We hope the launch of the new network means expansion of coverage beyond the capital.

Seems to me WiMAX is the more popular choice technology for wireless broadband Internet delivery. FINTEL’s Kidanet is using WiMAX and also TFL’s Connect.

I was wondering about TFL’s CDMA 2000 and whether it was worth it for them to invest in it at all. Everyone’s going WiMAX, why do you think TFL chose CDMA, with such limited coverage?