Samsung and mobile phone provider, and TVA Sistema de Televisao S.A in Brazil, signed a contract on Wednesday (November 1st, 2006) to commercialize Mobile WiMAX platform in the city of Curitiba, Brazil.

TVA plans to commercialize Mobile WiMAX services in Curitiba first, Parana State in south of Brazil, from 1st half of 2007. Access will be extended to other Brazilian cities over next years.

According to the contract, Samsung will supply base stations and other system hardware and Mobile WiMAX modems initially and in the near future provide PCMCIA cards and terminals for service portability.

Samsung has already begun to deploy this Mobile WiMAX platform in Venezuela and will bring this platform to Brazil, Latin America’s largest market. Mobile WiMAX platform offers wireless high-speed data communications on the move complying with IEEE 802.16e standard. In addition to mobility and portability, WiMAX platform also brings low cost data transmission to the Brazilian users.

"WiMAX will revolutionize broadband as it changes the service's consumption habits, incorporating portability into the personal broadband concept”, said Virgilio Amaral, Technology & Strategy Director of TVA. Mobile WiMAX service had been launched in Korean market in May 2006 and is expanding to other worldwide markets.