WiMAX will soon emerge in several northeast U.S. cities, thanks to efforts by Horizon Wi-Com. The company announced plans to launch a wireless broadband service in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Buffalo, Washington, D.C., Richmond, and Cincinnati.

“Our objective is to provide wireless last-mile access to residential, business, and emergency restoration markets,” said Horizon’s Ron Olexa, in a statement. “We will start building the network in the first quarter of this year, with a view to ongoing expansion and additional network deployments in the latter part of 2007.”

The networks will utilize 802.16e equipment from Navini Networks, including Navini’s Ripwave MX8 platform and its Smart WiMAX solution. Smart WiMAX doubles the data throughput of WiMAX transmissions through the combination of Smart Beamforming with beamformed MIMO (Multiple Input/Multiple Output).

[tags]WiMAX[/tags]