The Inet Report

Nortel Networks Corp., the largest North American maker of telephone gear, said it’s betting on the increased adoption of faster wireless Internet technology.

During 2006, the company has more than doubled its investment in a standard known as WiMax, said Peter MacKinnon, a Nortel general manager, in an interview yesterday. He declined to give specific figures. The technology gives phone companies the ability to deliver high-speed services including video over wireless devices.

“Earlier this year, we started looking at the wireless road map and it became clear that we needed to start investing heavily,” said MacKinnon, 44, from the WiMax World USA conference that starts today in Boston. “We’ve redirected resources from across the company.”

This follows on the heals of our report from last month of Intel investing more to promote WiMax. If this trend continues, we will hopefully solve the last mile and offer Wireless Internet easily to the masses where ever they go.

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Is WiMax a solution to bring broadband Internet to the Jungle? Santa Clara, Calif. based chipmaker Intel, in conjunction with Brazilian schools and companies, has brought easily accessible broadband to Parintins, an isolated city of 114,000 on an island in the Amazon Basin.

A tower for WiMax, a long-range wireless technology, was set up on the island and connects two schools, a hospital, a community center and a university to a broadband network. To date, the Internet had been accessed primarily with dial-up connections, said Ricardo Carreon, regional director of Intel Latin America. The only broadband options were microwave or satellite. Intel Chairman Craig Barrett came to the city for the formal unveiling of the networks.

Intel estimates that the new network will serve about 1,500 students and 10,000 community members.

WiMax could be a solution to help developing countries gain the power of technology and the Internet. The hospital, for instance, will use the link for telemedicine and remote diagnostics.