HFCL conducts mobile broadband network trial with NextWave’s solution
(Product News, 01 Jul 2008 )
By Vinod Kataria
Chandigarh: NextWave Wireless Inc, a global provider of mobile multimedia and wireless broadband technologies, announced that HFCL Infotel Ltd, a telecommunications service provider in the Punjab state of northern India, is conducting a large-scale outdoor Wi-Fi network trial using NextWave’s MBW 2000 series micro cell and MBW 1000 series pico cell Wi-Fi base stations in the capital city of Chandigarh.
G. D. Singh, COO, HFCL, Infotel Ltd, said, “We believes in giving the best of services to the consumer on the most advanced and customer centric platform possible, the synergies with NextWave will help HFCL Infotel Ltd. give to its consumers the next level of connectivity. We are pleased to work with NextWave and look forward to a relationship which will set new benchmarks for performance and customer delight.”
Bill Jones, CEO of NextWave Network Products, stated, “NextWave believes that India presents an incredible opportunity and new frontier for high-performance mobile broadband networks and we are proud to provide HFCL with the technology and solutions to meet the demands of this fast-growing market. Our outdoor Wi-Fi base stations and innovative ‘smart’ technology take performance to the next level while fundamentally redefining the economics of mobile broadband service delivery.”
