Bridgewater wins four WiMAX clients in South America

Corporate IT Update, Oct 23, 2008

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Bridgewater Systems (Nasdaq: BWC), a specialist in subscriber management solutions for mobile service providers, announced on 23 October that it has been selected by four new customers in Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico and Chile to accelerate the launch of WiMAX mobile data services across the region.

The company said that many countries are adopting WiMAX wireless broadband technology to deliver Internet services to consumers and small and medium businesses and facilitate rapid economic development. In Latin America, it is estimated that WiMAX subscribers will grow from 660,000 in 2007 to 13 million by 2012, according to the 2008 WiMAX Forum WiMAX Technology Forecast.

Bridgewater Systems is providing Latin American customers with its WiMAX subscriber management platform that provides a unified view of subscribers, the applications they use, their service entitlements and billing profiles. This is complemented by the Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting (AAA) Service Controller and a powerful policy and profile engine that allow customers to authenticate, authorise and manage subscriber access to high speed Internet, Voice over IP and other advanced services on a per-subscriber basis. This solution is an integral part of the WiMAX architectures being delivered by the company's global reseller partners.

The South American customers were not identified and no financial details of the contracts were disclosed.

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