Nortel and Urban Wimax have launched a collaboration to prove the technical deliverability of mobile WiMax before the 2008 spectrum auction.

Different companies will be brought together through the collaboration to construct and test the WiMax service. It’ll demonstrate the technology and plans to provide UK with a 4G service through WiMax connectivity.

4G WiMax has greater capabilities in terms of bandwidth and range than WiFi. All of the above also comes with a price less than half of the existing solutions. The huge demand can now be met by service provides as WiMax can provide with fast, secure broadband to use for mobile users. It also would help running bandwidth hungy applications, and would help in providing enterprise business related service on mobile phones.

It would ensure UK’s competitiveness in the global market. This collaboration is to test the WiMax technology with trial customers. Macropolitan has already joined WiMax’s ecosystem. All three of these companies are concentrating at building a rapid network in the UK. Macropolitan would help reduce marketing time for WiMax services.

Ryan Jarvis, CEO of Macropolitan, said: “Macropolitan is pleased to join the collaboration with Nortel and Urban Wimax, adding our support and portfolio of over 9,300 urban telecoms sites to the group in its efforts to prove WiMAX deliverability ahead of the auction. Over the next six months we expect to see a growing interest in WiMAX and so we are backing this major customer-driven initiative. We believe other potential bidders will join this collaboration as they see the benefits of an ecosystem that can actually deliver on the promise of secure and reliable p