NDT to deploy WiMAX across Italy
Sunday, July 20th, 2008 – 3:06 pmNewport Digital Technologies (NDT) announced an agreement to deploy fixed and mobile WiMAX base stations across Northern Italy. The customer will use infrastructure radios from Taiwan’s Institute of Information Industry (III) based on the 802.16-2004 and 802.16e-2005 standards. NDT had announced the Italian network plans in May as part of an announcement for WiMAX deployment on the islands of Fiji.
NDT is a subsidiary of International Food Products Group. The company also distributes III’s low-cost notebook PC in the Americas and South Pacific. “We have already shipped 500 base stations this past quarter,” said Richard Damion, CEO of NDT. “We anticipate another record quarter as we expand our operations in Italy to $1-million US per month from August and start our shipments to Poland and Fiji in September. We anticipate generating revenues in excess of $75-million US during the next fiscal year.”
Additional details about WiMAX in Northern Italy can be found at WiMax.com
