By Carolyn J Dawson
TMCnet Contributor
Beceem Communications (News – Alert) is a well known supplier of mobile 4G-WiMAX chips. Beceem Communications recently announced that its competitive, high-performance BCS5200 4G-WiMAX chipset is powering the “Freedom 4G” CPE used in Open Range’s new “Perfectly SimpleSM” wireless broadband service. This service is presently available in North Colorado and will soon in various rural markets in a dozen other states. With simple and easy-to-use service, it helps the consumers and businesses to access high speed Internet wirelessly at true broadband speeds. Also, by using the Freedom 4G CPE, the users are able to enjoy built-in WiFi (News – Alert) in addition to local and long distance digital phone service.
Keith Paglusch who is the executive vice president of Network Development at Open Range said, “Beceem’s 4G semiconductor solutions provided the perfect combination of high-performance and full feature integration for our Freedom 4G modem, enabling our Perfectly Simple 4G-WiMAX (News – Alert) service to give consumers the ability to get connected at true broadband speeds. We appreciate Beceem’s support and expertise during the deployment and launch of our 4G-WiMAX wireless broadband network – the realization of the Open Range vision to provide an indispensable service in areas of our country where broadband connectivity to the home or office has been too limited and expensive.”
Aditya Agrawal who is the Senior Director of Marketing at Beceem said, “The success of Open Range in bringing broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities in rural areas across the U.S. is partly based on our innovative Uplink Turbo solution that provides an extra performance boost at the cell edge. And the Freedom 4G modem is another great example where our chipset is enabling the delivery of true broadband speeds while simultaneously supporting voice services and WiFi, all in a single-chip that is crucial for a low cost modem.”
Open Range Communications is an American-based broadband wireless Internet services provider. Open Range is mainly focused in offering absolutely simple SM high speed Internet and digital phone service to around 546 communities nationwide. By 2014, Open Range plans to provide their services to roughly six million people via its 4G-WiMAX network.
Beceem provides a variety of single-chip solutions optimized for mobile devices and CPE markets. The products from Beceem are WiMAX certified and are exclusively designed to power the CLEAR and Sprint (News – Alert) 4G networks in the United States.
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Edited by Erin Harrison
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