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MeneameBrazil's telecoms regulator Anatel plans to propose new rules to define the use of WiMax services, reported financial newspaper Valor Econômico.
Anatel has approved alterations to regulations for use for the 3.5GHz band and plans to auction licenses for 3.5GHz and 10.5GHz, the newspaper said. The draft regulations, which are being studied, will be open to public consultation.
"We hope that the regulator will regulate spectrum but not the service... if you regulate the service, this will hamper competition," Pablo Yañez, data products director at Impsat Brasil told BNamericas.
MOVE TO WIMAX
Despite the uncertainty surrounding regulation, Brazil's fixed line operators - Telefônica, Brasil Telecom and Telemar - have shown interest in WiMax technology and have completed tests, reported Valor Econômico.
Following the success of its first pilot, Telefônica has started a second WiMax pilot. "We see viable economic opportunities in offering [WiMax] to large corporate clients," Telefônica's director of business development, Benedito Fayan told Valor Econômico.
"Brasil Telecom also intends to launch WiMax in two cities in 2006. Access can be complementary or substitute ADSL, the broadband standard," said Brasil Telecom's VP for operations, Francisco Santiago.
Brazil's largest fixed line operator, Telemar has a pilot with Intel in the Brazilian city of Ouro Preto in the mountainous region of Minas Gerais state. "It's still very expensive because it doesn't have scale," the newspaper quoted Telemar's director of corporate strategy, André Bianchi, as saying.
US chip manufacturer Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) has been amongst the front-runners on WiMax. On October 12, Intel and Brazilian public sector data processing company Prodam signed a letter of intent to implement a WiMax pilot in Prodam's home city São Paulo.
The new pilot in São Paulo follows other tests across different topologies such as Ouro Preto and in the coastal area of Mangaratiba in Rio de Janeiro state.
Brazil's cable TV companies have also joined the race, with TVA declaring its interest in WiMax technology.
Intel expects to see WiMax services available in areas like São Paulo by the end of 2006.
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