Motorola, Mada Communications launch WiMAX network in Jordan

The network enables Mada Communications to offer wireless broadband services, including voice and high-speed data, to customers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) across the region.

The WiMAX network, which was deployed in six months, ensures peak performance delivery of fixed and nomadic voice and data services to residential and enterprise customers. Through Motorola's wholesale model introduction, Mada Communications is also able to offer these WiMAX services to other Internet Service Providers (ISPs), expanding the potential of the WiMAX network and increasing revenues for the company.

Initially, wireless internet subscribers in Amman, Irbid, Zaraq are able to enjoy a higher level of wireless broadband service, while Mada Communications expands its 4G wireless network to the rest of the country. Consequently, consumers will have at their finger tips an array of products for home and business applications.

Mada Communications customers will enjoy up to 10Mb/s speed on their personal communication devices, a true convergence of voice, video and data services. "This is about empowering our customers to experience a nationwide 4G broadband network that is designed to offer higher speeds, lower cost and greater convenience", said Charles Hage Managing Director and co-founder of Mada Communications.

Ali Amer, vice president of sales, Middle East, Africa and Pakistan, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility, said:

"As a worldwide leader in 4G technology design and development, Motorola is proud to see its WiMAX services deployed so successfully with Mada Communications. We look forward to continuing our relationship with this innovative operator as it delivers superior service to its customers."

Motorola supplied equipment from its extensive WiMAX portfolio including WiMAX access points (WAP 400 and WAP 800) as well as indoor and outdoor customer premises equipment and portable plug-in devices such as the indoor CPEi 750, WiFi-enabled CPEi775, outdoor CPEo 400, and the award- winning USB plug-in device — the USBw 100. Motorola also integrated its WiMAX Access Service Network (ASN) Gateway to provide a critical piece of the end-to-end WiMAX network architecture. The gateway connects the WiMAX radio access network to a common IP core, offering a reduced cost and quicker time to market.