Ougadougou Wimax initially for administrative use

The Expansion of WiMAX in Africa continues. Burkina Faso’s Ministry of Posts and Information Communication Technology announced earlier this week that it will once again hire Alvarion for WiMAX deployment. The fifty one year old West Africa country has hired Alvarion in the past as service provider connecting administrative offices for advanced data and voice services in the capital city of Ouagadougou. The rollout plan includes the connection of additional cities and government offices to the current WiMAX network.
Based on the successful results, the Ministry of Posts and Information Communication Technology decided to award an expansion contract with full turnkey services to Alvarion.As part of the modernization process in Burkina Faso, the ministry plans to connect additional cities to broadband Internet starting in Bobo-Dioulasso, and to be followed later in Fada N’Gourma, Kaya, Koudougou, Ouahigouya and Ziniar.
Apart from the physical hardware installation, the Israeli-based company is also providing full project implementation, including project management, network planning, radio planning, training and technical support.
As part of this initiative, Alvarion will deploy its BreezeMAX base stations and customer premises equipment for the 2.5 GHz frequency band in the major cities of Burkina Faso.In addition, Alvarion is providing full project implementation including project management, network planning, full installation, radio planning, training services and ongoing technical support.
“Our goal is to improve public services across the country and enable efficient and reliable public administration processes,” said Noel Kabore, the Minister of Posts and ICT. “WiMAX is the best technology commercially available today to overcome lack of infrastructure and enable quick and easy access to all public offices. Alvarion’s technology has proven itself in Ouagadougou and we are confident that its WiMAX solution will enable us to implement the government’s strategy in the best possible way. This network will allow us to connect administration offices and governmental institutions throughout Burkina Faso using the broadband capabilities of the technology for data applications, Internet and VoIP.”
“We are proud to play a key role in enabling communications infrastructure in Burkina Faso, as part of our strategy to invest in emerging markets with full end-to-end solution responsibilities,” said Tzvika Friedman, president and CEO of Alvarion.