The company, whose Asian Broadband Campaign involves working with South-East Asian governments in stepping up wireless broadband deployment, believes that WiMAX can serve as the basis in helping governments achieve the goal of having digital inclusion.
�Standards-based wireless broadband connectivity can help enable technologies facilitate better services in areas likeeducation, healthcare, agricultural productivity and incomes, e-government access and technologies that support the overall well-being of a country�s development,� Intel�s chief information officer Stacy Smith told Business Times in Penang.
Smith said Intel is taking the lead in coordinating with governments, carriers and regulators in the region, along with those in the education, health and agriculture public sectors.
�This is to help the deployment to happen at every stage, which includes spectrum availability, product specifications and spectrum support, in spurring the deployment of WiMAX across the Association of South-East Asian Nations,� he said.
WiMAX is an emerging technology that promises to cover entire cites with high-speed wireless Internet links.
Smith said there are currently 100 WiMAX trials taking place worldwide.
