Samsung to export WiMAX technology to Iran

SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said
Monday it has signed a deal with an Iranian company to supply technology that
helps facilitate high-speed wireless Internet connectivity.

Datak Telecom Inc., one of Iran's major mobile carriers, recently agreed to use
Samsung's WiMAX network and other facilities exclusively for its mobile service,
according to Samsung. The financial terms were not disclosed.
WiMAX, the acronym for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is one of
the latest telecommunications technologies that allows wireless data transmission
at broadband-like speed. South Korea has its own technology, dubbed WiBro, used
in commercial service.
Samsung has provided equipment to 25 Mobile WiMAX operators in 21 countries. The
company has recently beefed up efforts to export equipment and networks for the
wireless technology to the Middle East, signing a deal with Saudi Arabia's mobile
carrier Mobily in June and with Kuwait's mobile carrier MADA Communications Inc.
in December.
The industry-led, non-profit corporation WiMAX Forum forecast that there will be
more than 133 million subscribers worldwide by 2012.
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