Mobile WiMAX networks are being rolled out more slowly than expected, meaning that service revenues will grow more slowly than forecast a year ago, a new study from Juniper Research concluded on 20th May 2009.
The WiMAX broadband report found that revenues from WiMAX 802.16e broadband subscribers will exceed $15 billion globally by 2014. WiMAX will provide an improved experience for broadband customers who are receiving low speed DSL or cable modem services, or at the limit of DSL coverage. However, WiMAX is faced by spectrum auction postponements in several countries, funding problems from the credit crunch, and slow network implementations, all combining to handicap network operators signing up subscribers.
Report author Howard Wilcox warned: “Whilst market leaders such as Clearwire are launching wimax services and expanding internationally, there are also well-publicised challenges for WiMAX such as those highlighted by French regulator ARCEP. We’re on the cusp of make or break time for WiMAX.”
In addition, the report determined that the WiMAX ecosystem needs to deliver by translating trials into reliable, commercial services that attract customers.
Further findings include:
- North America, Far East & China and Western Europe together will account for 70% of market by 2014
- Mobile WiMAX has role to play in providing broadband in developing countries where there is no wired network
- Africa and the Middle East, South America, the Indian Sub Continent and Eastern Europe will together be worth some $4bn by 2014
About Howard Wilcox, author of the report
Howard Wilcox is a Senior Analyst with Juniper Research, and author of the Mobile Payments Markets reports series, along with the Mobile Broadband, Fixed WiMAX and Mobile WiMAX reports. He is frequently interviewed by industry journals in both the mobile and finance sectors, including the BBC. Howard spoke at EFMA Conference on Mobile Financial Services in November 2008 in Athens. Howard has over twenty five years’ experience in the Telecommunications sector. He was previously Director of Industry Intelligence at Marconi, where he has spent most of his career in a variety of analytical roles. Howard has a BA in Business Administration with French from Loughborough University, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Management Development from Coventry University.
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