WiMAX

WiMAX presents a great opportunity for both established and new telecom operators and service providers.

While a significant part of the future success of WiMAX will be dependent on successful roaming, its implementation is complex and challenging to achieve.

Roaming is central to the success of WiMAX; this is a market that may reach as much as $1.6 billion by 2009 according to Infonetics. Indeed, GSM only became a real success once roaming had taken off. The first GSM roaming agreement was established back in 1993, and now there are over 2,000,000,000 connections per month.

Roaming is key to growth

• Extend your coverage: It enables subscribers to access and utilize foreign networks and create a seamless user experience
• Increases your traffic: It enables network providers to earn incremental revenue from visiting subscribers
• Enables one-bill subscriptions: At the end of the month one bill with all connections and services is presented to the end user.

Because of Trustive's role as a global hotspot operator providing WiFi clearing to the likes of Telefonica, Vodafone and over 70 other hotspot operators, the WiMAX Spectrum Owners Alliance (WiSOA) selected Trustive as the IP partner to provide a turn-key solution to allow WiMAX users to roam to other networks.

The key objective of WiSOA is to accelerate the acceptance and deployment of interoperable WiMAX networks through a coordinated global effort. The partnership was part of the world's first roaming agreement to provide seamless 'GSM-like' roaming amongst WiMAX networks and with global WiFi networks.

Trustive provides services for unified clearance, billing and interconnection. These services will provide roaming amongst WiMAX networks, as well as interconnection with the Trustive Network, an aggregated global WiFi network of over 30,000 hotspots, creating one global wireless IP clearing and roaming platform. It will also instigate the first step in the implementation of roaming between WiMAX networks and hundreds of GSM and 3G roaming partners.

WiMAX operators contact: Ismael Naucha, roaming@trustive.com