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Alvarion was one of these taking part in a WiMAX demonstration in the UK this week. The country was once considered one of the hottest prospects for 802.16 because it planned an early auction of 2.6GHz licenses, long before LTE was available, and because it has a telco in British Telecom which has shown strong interest in re-entering the wireless sector via WiMAX. But the auction has been significantly delayed by a string of legal battles and debates over GSM spectrum refarming, plus the new Digital Britain plan, all of which could affect the pricing of the 2.6GHz licenses and carrier strategies for this spectrum.

So the original purpose of the trial - run in Maidstone in the south east of the country, by the Mobile WiMAX Acceleration Group (M-WAG) - was to impress regulator Ofcom with the business case for 802.16 ahead of an auction. Now the emphasis had shifted more towards a generic proof concept and technology, demonstrating a range of business cases for WiMAX on the UK's first live end-to-end 2.5GHz Mobile WiMAX system. The focus was on four applications - public safety, CCTV monitoring, building inspection and workforce mobility. The group said it clearly showed benefits for WiMAX over current technologies and processes, "as well as presenting new opportunities for service improvement and cost savings".

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