GTWE has no WiMAX license in Germany!
Thanks indeed Jim, you prompted a little more DD on my side.
Similar info was posted last December by Axel Bonn, I mean Klaus Larator (sorry keep getting mixed up with all these names and aliases) LOL!
Although not sure if you can equate WiMax with “Broadband wireless access”. I assume that MGM Productions Group and Televersa Online are the same as the unnamed regional licenses mentioned by Alex in his/her post of 12/16/2006.
More from Alex below to point out where we seem to be today in Germany; as follows:
a) Heilbron was a starter last November but did not last long.
b) Clearstream is the company to approach as Deutsche Telekom has opted out of WiMax, except that as of today:
c.1) GTWE is down to Siggy and two more employees, just to hold the fort
c.2) No more ex Ambassadors and high flying Rubikon Caesars to rely on for approaching Clearstream or any other potential JV partner of any consequence
IT SEEMS THERE IS NO CLEAR INDICATION OF WHO, HOW AND WHEN GTWE (i.e. Globetel Europe) COULD POSSIBLY START A JV WITH A WiMax LICENSED GERMAN COMPANY.
True we still have an Anglo-Polish connection and Uli Altvater and also Alice Muntz may be of German ancestry, but it all looks to me as we have really run out of steam here.
NO WIMAX AND NO STRAT = NO HOTZONE AND SUPER HUB
Posted by: Axel Larator
In reply to: dfmantx who wrote msg# 49783
Date:11/3/2006 11:31:34 AM
Post # of 49896
www.buergernetze.de points to GlobeTel.EU
If you are close to to their Head-End in Heilbron you will see a Wi-Fi landing page with a SSID Buergernetze. With “guest” as user and “guest” as PWD you are in for a surf.
Netstumbler is running since Friday last week but no real traffic at all. Their office seems to be empty.
The Head-End looks pretty impressive, different from the pictures we have seen before but the roof is full of antennas also a camera system is visible.
Posted by: Axel Larator
In reply to: Dollarfromcents who wrote msg# 49893
Date:11/4/2006 5:07:51 AM
Post # of 49975
Deutsche Telekom
I checked the WiMax issue with Deutsche Telekom. I talked with two PR guys and a technical manager. DT made a Due Dilligence and decided not to go for a Germany-wide WiMax biz. They told me that the last white spots (non-DSL areas) in Germany will be closed soon. The costs of a professional WiMax network are similiar to a mobile (GPS) based system or higher. The money they would have to spend will be used for the expansion of T-Mobile in the US.
Posted by: Axel Larator
In reply to: crashtestsuperstar who wrote msg# 58161
Date:12/16/2006 6:07:57 PM
Post # of 58655
“Clearstream has paid a few millions to get a free spectrum and is established in the Internet world. They have customers. We have not. In Germany (GETW is) sitting a General Manager (Siggy) a secretary and a technician, that's all.”
Posted by: Axel Larator
In reply to: None
Date:12/16/2006 5:11:05 AM
Post # of 58654
German Broadband Wireless Auction Sees Clearwire, Inquam, DBD as Winners
By Glenn Fleishman
Martin Sauter notes that the German broadband wireless access auction is already over: It ran a short course and resulted in €56m for the government’s coffers from the three nationwide winners. Clearwire gets to extend its global hegemony to yet another nation. Inquam is partly owned by NextWave. DBD is a German firm. The auction offered 21 MHz for uplink and another 21 MHz for downlink, which is a lot of spectrum to play with on a national basis for broadband wireless. And competition could be fierce. Some regional licenses were also awarded to increase the pressure…..
Posted by: Axel Larator
In reply to: crashtestsuperstar who wrote msg# 58280
Date:12/17/2006 5:06:24 AM
Post # of 58655
…..Competition in Germany is Clearstream versus Deutsche Telekom. Clearstream will be killed in this process…….
