South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it has signed a deal with an Iranian company to supply technology that helps facilitate high-speed wireless Internet connectivity.
Datak Telecom Inc., one of Iran’s major mobile carriers, recently agreed to use Samsung’s WiMAX network and other facilities exclusively for its mobile service, according to Samsung. The financial terms were not disclosed.
WiMAX, the acronym for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is one of the latest telecommunications technologies that allows wireless data transmission at broadband-like speed. South Korea has its own technology, dubbed WiBro, used in commercial service.
Samsung has provided equipment to 25 Mobile WiMAX operators in 21 countries. The company has recently beefed up efforts to export equipment and networks for the wireless technology to the Middle East, signing a deal with Saudi Arabia’s mobile carrier Mobily in June and with Kuwait’s mobile carrier MADA Communications Inc. in December.
The industry-led, non-profit corporation WiMAX Forum forecast that there will bemore than 133 million subscribers worldwide by 2012.
