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A telecom company on Wednesday announced its plan to
offer wireless broadband service to small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
using WiMAX (worldwide interoperability for microwave access)
technology.
Wi MAX is a technology allowing
the delivery of faster and efficient wireless broadband access as an
alternative to cable and digital subscriber lines (DSL).
In a briefing, Josie Yap,
Prime Communications president told reporters the company plans to
roll out its own WiMAX infrastructure, but failed to indicate a
timetable for the investment.
Formerly called Prime Digital
Systems Inc., Prime Communications is an Internet service provider.
It is now a full-fledged telco specializing in Internet Protocol
(IP) communications.
Yap said the company will
continue to focus on delivering more high-bandwidth Internet access,
via wireless leased lines to SMEs and large-scale enterprises, but
without giving up its prepaid Internet access offering.
“The current players cannot
meet demand. The underserved and unserved market is big enough for
us,” she said.
The executive said the
company’s growth this year will come mainly from its wireless IP
connectivity service, which it started to offer last year.
In 2005, the National
Telecommunications Commission (NTC) granted the company a
provisionary license to deploy wireless data infrastructure across
the country, enabling Prime Communications to provide wireless IP
connectivity using the latest point-to-point technologies. A year
later, the regulator awarded the company a license to offer
voice-over-Internet protocol.
--Darwin G. Amojelar
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