Redline Picks Up WiMAX Contract in Tunisia

Redline Communications has announced that Tunisia's Divona Telecom has chosen its RedMAX products for its five-city WiMAX network. Redline's base stations and indoor and outdoor subscriber units were chosen after an extensive three-month trial period that involved several WiMAX vendors. The US$1 million network buildout will take place in several phases over the next two years, and will connect five major cities in Tunisia, including Tunis, Nabeul, Souse, Monastir and Sfax.

Divona Telecom is already serving several hundred corporations on its WiMAX network.

"Divona is the broadband business partner of choice in Tunisia", said M. Mohamed Garbouj, General Manager, Divona Telecom. "Our premier business partners depend on us to deliver reliable, high-speed, uninterruptable fixed and nomadic voice, video and data services throughout this region, and our existing infrastructure - a combination of VSAT and incumbent operator copper lines - prevented us from meeting this mandate."

Mr. Garbouj continued, "By deploying Redline's WiMAX Forum Certified solutions, we've taken active measures to increase our network's capacity, features and reliability. To date, we have several hundred WiMAX customers, and plan to double our subscriber base every quarter for the next four years, exceeding our four-year ROI goal."