MTN cameroon chose wimax products from Redline Communications to deploy it's 12-city network. MTN will build base stations and plans to services 700 businesses and 12,000 residential users in the first too year of deployment. WiMax products are based on the IEEE standard 802.16 and are supposed to provide wireless broadband access.Optimally, it can reach speeds of 70Mbps in a 50KM radius. Cameroon , developing country in central Africa, has an obsolete wireline network and would benefit from wireless communications. WiMax could potentially broaden internet usage in Cameroon as cell phones broaden telephony.
