Tata is rolling out Telsima WiMAX gear in 110 cities

Tata is rolling out Telsima WiMAX gear in 110 cities, including some of the world’s largest metropolitan markets: Mumbai (Bombay), Delhi and Chennai. Unlike BSNL’s rollout of Soma gear in January, the WiMAX rollout will focus on enterprise services rather than residential, but in the 15 largest markets, Tata will also offer residential broadband services. The deployment also differs in spectrum used. While Soma is using the global 2.5 GHz band used by Sprint and Clearwire, Tata’s deployment is in 3.3 GHz, close to the 3.5 GHz bands identified for WiMAX in Europe, but in 12-MHz channels.