WIMAX roll-out in Bangladesh

Recently we have been hearing about WIMAX and its rolling-out in Bangladesh mainly aiming to the rural and condensed areas where Cable broadband service may not get through. Before going into more detail we should all know about WIMAX.

What is WIMAX:
As usual the details can be brought from Wikipedia, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX link.

Following from Wikipedia:

WiMAX, the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a telecommunications technology that provides wireless data in a variety of ways, from point-to-point links to full mobile cellular type access. It is based on the IEEE 802.16 standard, which is also called WirelessMAN. The name "WiMAX" was created by the WiMAX Forum, which was formed in June 2001 to promote conformance and interoperability of the standard. The forum describes WiMAX as "a standards-based technology enabling the delivery of last mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL.

Features of WIMAX

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Configure Citycell ZOOM for your Laptop/Desktop Computers

Many people keep asking about how to configure Citycell's ZOOM for to use in their computers and Laptops to get internet access. Although its plain vanilla type of thing for many people, for many others its not so easy.

The problem is that I couldn't find any post in Google where it describes easily for the other people. I have tried to describe it below step-by-step so that any new person can easily understand this and make the connection.

Assumptions:

1. You should have a modem (USB or PCMCIA), Citycell RIM with internet enabled and sufficient network coverage.

2. You also need to insert your RIM card into the modem in one prescribed direction

3. You should be aware about the network coverage and its strength at your location

Configuration for Desktop Computers:

Step 1: Insert your CD that comes with you modem into computer's CD-ROM drive

Step 2: The software installation would launch automatically, else run setup.exe from either CD-ROM root folder or from any other base folder, there should be only one setup file

Step 3: Click next by default until you reach end of the installation and click finish, it may ask you to restart you computer, do accordingly

Step 4: Now connect one end of your USB cable to modem, and another end to your computer's USB port, the computer would automatically recognize this new device and install driver accordingly, if any prompts come to enter your dial-in number, user id and password, then use following,

Dial-in Number: #777, User Name: waps (lower case),Password: waps (lower case)

Below is the picture of Huawei EC325 modem,



The other CDMA modems will have same kind of inputs/outputs and there is a place for inserting RIM card into it except if its non-RIM based.

Step 5: You should get the software short-cut on your computer's desktop or in start menu, kindly run it.
You should get a connect menu, click on that and if it asks for the details, put above details.

Alternately, you can create your own connection from new network configuration wizard on Windows XP/2000. Below is the screen-shot. Just click on that,



then Next,

select "Connect to the Internet" then Next,

select "Setup my connection manually" then Next,

select "Connect using a dial-up modem" and Next,

give ISP name "Citycell" and Next,

give Phone Number #777 and Next,

select "Anyone's use" and Next,

Provide waps in User name, Password and Confirm password fields and Next,

Check "Add a short-cut to this connection to my desktop" box and click Finish.

In any stage if it prompts for selecting modem, select the newly installed modem.

Connection creation is now complete. Now you will see a shortcut on your desktop, double-click it and click Connect. If everything is ok, then it will authenticate with Citycell's server and connect. You will see a network icon on the system-tray bar located at right-bottom corner of your desktop screen.

Now open Internet Explorer or any other browser and go to any website to check if internet connection is succeeded.
Configuration for Laptop Computers/Notebooks:

You need to follow above procedure except that the PCMCIA card needs to be inserted into your Laptop's PCMCIA slot. Below is the picture,



Keep in mind to extend the antena after you install the card on your Laptop. However you can also use USB modem with your Laptops just like Desktop computers.

I think the above guideline will help to configure Citycell ZOOM internet connection easily on your computers. For any suggestion you can e-mail me at mr91535@gmail.com.

I'll try to add some more tips which would help in this regard and to solve some common issues.

Thanks.

GrameenPhone's Internet & the reality

GrameenPhone started to provide internet service in Bangladesh since few years and is the first to provide such service to people. It uses EDGE technology for this. EDGE is a GSM 2.5 technology but not 3G, often referred as pre-3G.

Grammen has picked-up customers quickly, although the service was available to only limited number of people. It’s very obvious that with increase of customers, they didn't put extra care on increase of band-width. The ultimate sufferers were the subscribers who are putting money in every month and day, but not getting a good speed at all.

You can get full details from below link.

http://www.grameenphone.com/index.php?id=134