Monica Paolini

Senzi Fili Latest: Reaching Sustained Growth in the WiMAX market

Monica Paolini on June 28, 2010

Senza Fili’s latest white paper forecasts the future of WiMAX deployments and operators build out.
Strong subscriber growth over the past year has demonstrated the appeal of WiMAX technology

Key forecast results:

More than 90 million subscribers worldwide, with 47% of them in Asia Pacific
$24 billion in service revenues
$22/month ARPU
53% of subscribers will use WiMAX as a mobile technology
31% of subscribers will use dongles, 7% embedded laptops, 27% phones or other devices. Remaining subscribers will use desktop or outdoor subscriber units

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Senza Fili White Paper: Empowering the smart grid with WiMAX

Monica Paolini on June 21, 2010

Electric utilities are reliable, ubiquitous providers of essential services, but have often been seen as resistant to change and innovation. Smart grid initiatives are rapidly reversing this perception, as utilities take a leading role in technological innovation and the efficient use of natural resources. With smart grid applications, utilities can increase operational efficiencies, improve service quality, and save on costs. To make these achievements possible, utilities need to transform the way they operate their business-how they generate power, and how they deliver it to the end customer.

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SenzaFili White Paper : Compact base stations

Monica Paolini on April 7, 2010 | 1 comment

Compact base stations: a new step in the evolution of base station design. Squeezing out cost, volume, and complexity from WiMAX deployments. Compact base transceiver stations (BTSs) are the latest base station design to be introduced in the market. They bring WiMAX operators flexibility and cost savings while retaining the performance of macro BTSs. Compact BTSs can be installed in single-sector or multiple-sector configurations as alternatives to distributed BTSs with remote radio heads (RRHs).

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More Than One Yota of Difference

Monica Paolini on February 11, 2010

Yota is busy these days. The first Russian service provider to deploy a mobile WiMAX network, Yota has signed up over 350,000 customers in the six months since its commercial launch in June 2009. It continues to sign up 3,000 customers a day, and is the first service provider to have launched a WiMAX/GSM smartphone. While expanding domestically, Yota has also soft-launched a WiMAX network in Managua, Nicaragua, and is planning on rolling out networks in Belarus and Peru.

As a greenfield service provider new to the telecom market, deploying a new technology and a new type of service, Yota’s success is remarkable. The company has avoided the common trend among emerging market operators of focusing on basic fixed broadband connectivity in underserved areas. It is instead offering mobile broadband connectivity in cities where 3G is available, and where wireline broadband, including residential fiber in some areas, is available and cheap.

We have just published a paper that explores what led to Yota’s achievements and what lies at the core of its unique market approach. We looked at the market in which it operates, at how it is building and expanding its network, and at the proposition it offers to its customers in terms of services, devices, content and applications. We also widened the scope to follow Yota’s activities in markets outside Russia and to look at future prospects.

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Leveraging 802.16e WiMAX Technology in unlicensed Spectrum

Monica Paolini on November 16, 2009 | 1 comment

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License-exempt spectrum bands make it possible for operators who do not have access to licensed spectrum to deploy wireless broadband networks. Traditionally vendors have developed specific solutions for license-exempt operators, often based on proprietary technology that limits the flexibility and upgradability of their networks.

With IEEE 802.16e WiMAX, license-exempt operators have access to the most advanced wireless broadband technology on the market today and can take advantage of the same performance, ecosystem, and volume of scale that incumbent, nationwide wireless operators with licensed-spectrum can. While often positioned as a mobile broadband technology that operates in licensed bands, 802.16e WiMAX can also support fixed and nomadic services, and vertical applications in a range of frequencies up to 6 GHz, including license-exempt bands such as the 5.x GHz band and, in the US, the lightly licensed 3.65 GHz band.

As 802.16e WiMAX products for license-exempt bands are introduced in the market, operators need to know what the value proposition of using 802.16e WiMAX compared to alternative solutions is. How do they stand to gain from a technology that was developed to support mobility? Do they need the extra features that 802.16e WiMAX offers?

Why choose 802.16e WiMAX-based equipment?

The appeal of 802.16e WiMAX-based equipment to wireless operators either serving residential and business subscribers or hosting vertical applications is driven by the ability of the technology to meet operators’ requirements, both from a business model perspective and from a performance one. The strongest pull towards 802.16e WiMAX is that it is a technology with a well established evolution roadmap, with strong industry backing and a rapidly expanding ecosystem. The 802.16e WiMAX has a path toward the next WiMAX version, 802.16m, which 802.16d TDD WiMAX lacks. Operators with 802.16e WiMAX-based networks will be able to upgrade their infrastructure to 802.16m WiMAX when the equipment becomes available. Operators with 802.16d TDD WiMAX do not have this opportunity, unless they are ready to build an overlay network or entirely replace the old equipment with the new 802.16e one.

With the introduction of 802.16e WiMAX-based equipment for use in license-exempt bands, 802.16d TDD WiMAX is rapidly becoming a legacy technology, as it already is in licensed bands. Wireless operators that do not have a clear migration path to 802.16e WiMAX are concerned that their vendors might cease their development of new 802.16d TDD WiMAX-based products in favor of the newer standard. The availability, selection, and cost … Read the rest