UQ WiMAX finally overtakes eMobile, the number of base station licenses acquired

"UQ WiMAX", a high-speed communication service with a maximum of 40 Mbps downstream and up to 10 Mbps uploaded by UQ Communications will celebrate the first year of commercial service in this month, but the service started in March 2007 with base station license acquisition number It became clear that we surpassed the mobile.

At the first anniversary recital held in June,We doubled the number of base stations in FY 2010 and revealed that we plan to open 15,000 stations in totalIn addition, although it is the company that has decided to speed up to 330 Mbps maximum in the future in the future, it seems that the service area is steadily expanding.

Details are as below.
Mobile / PHS related @ Wiki - Mobile phone base station license number (as of May 29, 2010)


The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications provides for licenses to establish base stations, etc. given to mobile phone companies etc. based on radio lawRadio station radio information search pageAccording to "Mobile / PHS related @ Wiki" which summarizes the base station information of each cell phone company obtained from the mobile phone company, the number of mobile phone base station licenses as of May 29, 2010 is 922 , While UQ Communications is said to be 9412 nationwide.

This is the number of e-mobile base station licenses. A license for nine stations has been newly issued compared to May 15 when the page of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications last time was updated.


And the base station license number of UQ Communications. From 15th May here, 154 new stations are newly issued. By the way, the company was dated June 24,The number of base station licenses acquired exceeded 10,000Has been announced.


In addition to the variety of mobile phone base stations ranging from high output to small output, UQ Communications adopts the communication method "Mobile WiMAX"And the communication method adopted by EMOBILE"HSPAIt is necessary to be aware that different frequency bands used by both companies are different and it is not always possible to talk about the goodness of communication service only by the number of base stations, but from the start of commercial service I am surprised that the area development has been realized so far in just one year.

Area information on UQ WiMAX and EMOBILE are as follows.

UQ WiMAX | Service Area


Service Area | EMOBILE