Positive Outlook for WiMAX in 2009-2010

Although the dismal economic markets at the end of 2008 continue their plummet through the first quarter of 2009, the United States WiMAX service provider Clearwire, released increased revenue reports from 2008.

Along with these reports, Clearwire also announced WiMAX deployments for Atlanta and Las Vegas in the coming months, as well as deployments in Charlotte, Chicago, the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, Honolulu, Philadelphia, and Seattle, for later on in the year. As for 2010, the company prognosticates deployments for New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Houston, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

With such positive numbers from 2008, Clearwire’s panoply of deployments for the next two years bodes well for the WiMAX industry. By the end of 2010, with deployments in thirteen cities across the United States, Clearwire predicts that it will provide WiMAX services to 120 million Americans in the coming years. With Clearwire forging a partnership with Sprint and other leading cable companies, the company can now expand the breadth of their services further than they were able to before.

On a related note, the positive feedback from the recent deployment of WiMAX in Portland, Oregon shows promise for the budding wireless technology in the United States. Clearwire indicates that the sales growth from the launch in Portland doubled any of their other previous deployments. With such promise, future WiMAX deployments in the U.S. may be met with the same success.