Next Mobile's iMAX deployment is targeting 77 million residents nationwide and 4 million filipino Americans through broadband wireless bundled services

NextNet Wireless, one of the industry's recognized providers of non line-of-sight (NLOS) broadband wireless access systems, and Internet Service Provider iMAX Communications, Inc. announced that they have signed a contract to deliver NLOS broadband wireless services in the Philippines using NextNet's Expedience system. iMAX will commence broadband wireless service in the summer of 2003, targeting 5 million of the 12 million business and residential subscribers in metropolitan Manila -- one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Next Mobile will provide the required infrastructure and key personnel to implement and manage the iMAX network build out. iMAX plans to partner with local ISPs to expand broadband wireless service to cover 77 million Filipinos nationwide, or 98% of the population of the Philippines.