LONDON-Nortel Networks Ltd. announced a plan to build a wireless broadband network in an African community, allowing the company to highlight the “positive impact of communications networks on healthcare, education and economic development.” Nortel said the network likely would use CDMA technology in the 450 MHz band.
“Leading the development of advanced, broadband wireless communications reduces the cost involved in providing wireless network access in developing markets,” said Steve Pusey, president of Nortel’s Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific businesses. “Wireless penetration in Africa is already more than double that of fixed networks, and we feel that there is an opportunity for communications access to be made available to more remote and dispersed areas to stimulate economic, healthcare and educational development.”
Nortel said it had not yet selected a location for its initiative.
