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High-Speed Internet now in Lebanon: Alcatel and GDS agree to perform WiMax trial in the Middle East
By Élodie Morel Lebbos
December 17, 2007
 
Mid-November 2006: Alcatel announced that it has been selected by Globalcom Data Services (GDS), an innovative private Lebanese broadband data operator, to conduct the first WiMAX trial in the Middle East. GDS is aiming at using this new wireless technology to provide the entire country with high-speed internet service. The trial has started in November 2006 and commercial deployment in Lebanon is scheduled to be completed by end 2007.
 

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The Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access WiMax is a new wireless internet access technology still in the process of improvement and expansion. It provides Internet access to underprivileged populations in developing countries. Given its low cost when compared to classical wire technologies, Wimax represents a high-speed connectivity alternative to areas where DSL is not available due to technical or economic limitations. It supplies urban, suburban and rural areas with high-speed internet access. Other countries have also embarked on a similar initiative, namely Tunisia where the renowned operator Tunisie Telecom has successfully installed the first WiMax network in the northern suburb of the capital Tunis early November 2006.
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