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butlerNetworks
Denmark First Wireless Network
Thursday 1. March butlerNetworks launched
Denmark’s first FWA connection (Fixed
Wireless Access) in Copenhagen and made
wireless broadband a reality.
We
have established our first basestation on
Vesterbrogade in the heart of Copenhagen and
we already have several customers connected.
It is the first connection established under
the FWA license for transmission in the 26 GHz
band which butlerNetworks was awarded in
December 2000.
At
that occasion Managing Director, Nina Wahl
Asmussen gave the promise that butlerNetworks
would be airborne no later than 1. March, a
promise she has now kept. We experience a
substantial interest for the possibilities
with wireless broadband and it certainly is
not difficult to find customers, says Nina
Wahl Asmussen. It promise well for our
roll-out plans which comprise another 31
basestations before the end of the year.
The
first link was established to the Dubex on
Islands Brygge. Dubex is a well-established
consultants company within IT security who,
apart from being dependant on their outgoing
connections also see the possibilities of the
new technology. About Denmark’s first FWA
link Partner, Gorm Mandsberg from Dubex says:
“At
Dubex we are very dependant of our Internet
connection. But even with redundancy in our
cables we are not guaranteed against cables
being damaged. This is what we experienced
recently and it cost us a whole day
“down”. We were offered to be test
customer for butlerNetworks and within few
days we had a wireless link to our usual ISP.
It is a very easy and quick way to get true
broadband installed.”
Dubex is a good example of the target group
and the possibilities of FWA says Nina Wahl
Asmussen. It is companies with a need for
transmitting data, voice and video and
consequently needs large capacities. Companies
whose needs have increased and may very well
continue to do so and via FWA can get stable
connections they can tune to higher capacities
following to their increasing needs.
butlerNetworks start at 2 Mbits, where copper
based ADSL stops, and reaches 155 Mbits. We
have more customers in the pipeline and it is
e.g. capacity demanding housing associations,
picture processing advertising agencies and
information exchanging corporations.
ButlerNetworks
is in the market as a carriers carrier and
offer FWA links via partners. This is a
position that makes it possible for all other
operators – also Telecom companies without a
license - to offer wireless Access to their
customers.
E.g.
the Dubex link is established in cooperation
with Tele2.
“It
will strengthen competition which again will
be for the benefit of the customers” says
Nina Wahl Asmussen, “and that is exactly the
intention as described in the Government
publication “Det Digitale Danmark”.
Additional
to Telecom companies other partner types are
IT enterprise companies, Internet suppliers
and hosting companies.
Being
a newly established company with core business
based on wireless access it is of course
important to us to show we have the
competence, the will and the strength to
implement FWA in Denmark.
We
set ourselves a high target when promising to
be ready by 1. March – only 3 month after
being awarded the license – and we are both
happy and proud that we succeeded! But we do
not rest on our laurels, Nina Wahl Asmussen
concludes. The next basestation in Copenhagen
is all set and according to our roll-out plan
we will be present in Jutland by summer.
For
further information please call
Head of Communication Lisbeth Weichel,
telephone 77 88 88 88 or e-mail liw@butlernetworks.com.
Photos:
Denmarks
first FWA basestation with customer airborne
– Vesterbrogade, Compenhagen
1)
Antenna with 2 of 4 radio transmitters
needed to cover a complet circle.
2)
Close-up of radio transmitter. Coverage
up to 4 km in a 90 degree angle.
3)
Antennas are situated high above the
rooftops. From up here connections can be
established to any customer with LOS (Line of
Sight).
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