EETimes.com - Samsung backs Italy's WiBro launch in 2007

EETimes.com - Samsung backs Italy's WiBro launch in 2007: "Samsung backs Italy's WiBro launch in 2007

Sean Shim
EE Times
(02/13/2006 8:42 H EST)

SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has agreed to cooperate with Italy's top telecommunications service carrier to jointly launch a mobile WiMAX service in Italy in 2007.

Under the agreement, Samsung will provide Telecom Italia with relevant technologies and know-how for the WiBro high-speed Internet broadband service, Samsung said in a report.

The two partners, under a strategic alliance agreed upon late last year, are demonstrating the WiBro service at Olympic Rendezvous@Samsung, Samsung’s exhibition pavilion located in Torino, the site of the Winter Olympic Games.

Last December, Samsung signed a similar agreement with Venezuela’s mobile service provider Omnivision C.A. The Venezuelan pay-TV service provider will deploy the WiBro system the third quarter of this year."