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Brazil is the most active Latin American nation, along with Mexico, in promoting broadband fixed wireless services and testing portable or mobile extensions.

The Brazilian administration has a program called Service of Digital Communications (SCD), which aims to bring internet access to remote areas. Intel is working with government agencies and will have a WiMAX pilot, probably in partnership with Siemens, running by the end of this year.

The network will not only serve rural communities but will generate most of its revenue from business users and providing services to ISPs and hosting companies.

Also in Brazil, Neotec, a consortium of mobile operators, has tested a NextNet-based system in urban areas, in the MMDS spectrum that many Brazilian operators own for television services.

The Brazilian TVA project with Samsung may be a mixed blessing as far as Intel is concerned. While any victory for pre-WiMAX technologies is good for the chip giants agenda, it has no interest in seeing the Korean giants, which either make their own chips or source them from their own associates, becoming dominant on the global stage

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