Telecoms: Italy

The National Regulatory Authority started a 60 days long public consultation process to better define rules for awarding the long-awaited WiMAX licenses for broadband wireless access on the 3.5 GHz band.

MGM Production Group it the Italian company that won a license to operate a WiMAX service in the Bayern region in Germany, including the city of Munich.

After a long row amont its Ministers, the Italian government finally agreed to free 35+35 MHz in the 3.4÷3.6 Ghz band (currently used by the Armed Forces) for WiMAX use by June 2007.

The Italian NRA (AGCOM) is expected to clarify soon the auction rules for WiMAX licenses to be awarded within a couple of months.

The National Regulatory Authority published the rules for the WiMax licenses to be auctioned soon.

The Ministry of Communication finally gave the go-ahead to the long awaited WiMax license auction for the 3.5 GHz band. The whole process is expeced to last about three months from today.

The Ministry of Telecommunication received 29 applications from bidders to the WiMax auction, to start at the end of this month.

NGI has deployed its Alvarion's BreezeACCESS®VL and BreezeNET B to offer high speed broadband wireless services in Northern Italy.

The Ministry of Communications received 179 starting bids for the WiMax auction.

WiMax licenses has been finally awarded. The Italian Treasury will happily cash in € 136 m, 176% more than the base price set for the auction.

Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Aria as prime supplier for building and maintaining a nation-wide wireless broadband network based on WiMAX 802.16e-2005 (Rev-e) technology.

Earlier this year, Aria won the auction of the WiMAX 3.5 GHz radio frequencies in all Italian regions.