Global Industry Analysts, Inc. (GIA), just announced the release of a global report on the WiMAX market, predicting that the world market for WiMAX will exceed $9.4 billion by 2015. Despite the current economic downturn that threw most major industries for a loop, the report says that WiMAX is expected to recreate momentum thanks to a greater number of mobile WiMAX-enabled tools, growth in base station operation, and expansion in other emerging markets.
As WiMAX becomes more commercially accessible, main targets for WiMAX growth will be up and coming markets who have little or no DSL coverage. International areas of potential WiMAX growth and current WiMAX rollout include Eastern and Central Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, Central America and Latin America. At present, India is considered to be the biggest WiMAX opportunity and various providers are scrambling to get their stake there.
International WiMAX growth in 2009 decelerated a bit over the course of the year while the global economic recession resulted in a decline in monthly revenues from business users. Hurdles with deployment for WiMAX operators involving financing, regulations, and spectrum allocation all played their respective parts in this decline. Keep in mind that growth is still expected, particularly after Q1 2010 showed major expansion in WiMAX devices, deployment, and subscribers.
Nationally, the WiMAX market has been growing and will continue to increase in not only remote, hard-to-reach areas, but now in major metropolis’ as well. Major factors that will drive continued adoption of mobile WiMAX are shifts in user spending towards wireless broadband services and rationalization of communication services expenses by consumers. Top WiMAX provider Clearwire has already rolled out WiMAX in over 30 markets across the country with plans of WiMAX in more major cities including New York and San Francisco for 2010.
Another factor to be taken into consideration in the future of WiMAX is the development of LTE and the hype surrounding it, as it is expected to have a major impact on the 4G world. In terms of the WiMAX-LTE debate, some are skeptical and believe that for one to prosper, the other must fail. In reality, the possibility of dual WiMAX and LTE-enabled devices has already been in the works with major 4G players including Clearwire, Intel, Nokia, and Sprint and shows real promise.
The report titled “WiMAX: A Global Strategic Business Report” announced by GIA provides a comprehensive review of market trends, competition, technological overview, product innovations, and recent industry activity both at home and abroad.
For more details about this report, visit www.strategyr.com/WiMAX_Market_Report.asp.
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What people should understand is, Sprint was an inch away from deploying CDMA EV-DV. (Evolution, Data and Voice) But they chose to go with EV-DO (Evolution, Data Only)
CDMA is, was capable of data AND voice, just like GSM. But it didn't happen.
And as for you Sprint bashers… The Nextel purchase was worth $35 Billion dollars. Because of the government friendly iDEN network, and Nextel's holdings of 40+% of the 2.5 Ghz spectrum.
Oh, and I forgot to add… Sprint/Clearwire own 88% of the 2.5 Ghz spectrum. While 6-8% percent will be unreachable due to University of Michigan owning all the spectrum for their state. Which means, No roaming.
It was decided by the FCC that the 2.5 Ghz frequency was to be used for education. (i.e. Universities, and Colleges) But somehow the Telecomm. people got a hold of it… Which is good for me as a Sprint customer.
What people should understand is, Sprint was an inch away from deploying CDMA EV-DV. (Evolution, Data and Voice) But they chose to go with EV-DO (Evolution, Data Only)
CDMA is, was capable of data AND voice, just like GSM. But it didn't happen.
And as for you Sprint bashers… The Nextel purchase was worth $35 Billion dollars. Because of the government friendly iDEN network, and Nextel's holdings of 40+% of the 2.5 Ghz spectrum.
Oh, and I forgot to add… Sprint/Clearwire own 88% of the 2.5 Ghz spectrum. While 6-8% percent will be unreachable due to University of Michigan owning all the spectrum for their state. Which means, No roaming.
It was decided by the FCC that the 2.5 Ghz frequency was to be used for education. (i.e. Universities, and Colleges) But somehow the Telecomm. people got a hold of it… Which is good for me as a Sprint customer.