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February 08, 2006
Cambodia gears up for wireless broadband
ZDNET ASIA: Cambodia Data Communication (CDC) holds a license from the country's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and has started providing wireless broadband access to the capital city, Phnom Penh. The carrier intends to expand coverage to other Cambodian cities this year.
Wireless broadband typically covers a range of up to 30 miles, delivering Internet access speeds of up to 75 megabits per second. This is more than 20 times the speed of the fastest wired broadband available commercially.
Channda Sok, managing director of CDC, said in a statement that Cambodia's history of civil wars has prevented the deployment of an effective telecommunications infrastructure based on physical wires.
She added that CDC turned to wireless broadband because it needed a solution that would allow the country to take advantage of the latest advances in wireless and Internet Protocol (IP) technologies.
Cambodia has a population of 15 million, and according to the International Telecommunications Union, the country has a low Internet penetration rate of just 0.5 percent, or 41,000 Internet users, as of Sept. 2005.
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