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June 11, 2010

WiMAX Equipment/Device Market Down in Q1: Infonetics Research

By Anamika Singh
TMCnet Contributor

Infonetics Research, an international market research and consulting firm, released its first quarter WiMAX (News - Alert) Equipment, Devices, and Subscribers market share and forecast report.
 
“Whilst worldwide WiMAX equipment and device revenue saw a moderate decline in the first quarter of 2010, down 2 percent to $303 million, this decline is attributed to a seasonally slower first quarter, and does not alter our expectations for generally healthy growth through the rest of 2010. The recent defection from WiMAX to LTE (News - Alert) by Russian operator Yota is undoubtedly a blow, but this is currently just one WiMAX operator out of nearly six hundred, so it is not yet certain whether this is the thin end of a wedge for WiMAX," explained Richard Webb, Infonetics Research's directing analyst for WiMAX.
"The WiMAX Forum's (News - Alert) Open Retail Initiative, and the announcements made regarding the acceleration of the WiMAX 2.0 standard (802.16m), should help ensure that there is a technology roadmap and device ecosystem to support the WiMAX market in the long-term. Of course, the WiMAX community needs to see these initiatives bear fruit if it is to continue to be a credible broadband solution," Webb continues.
 
According to the report, the US, EMEA, and Asia Pacific are the popular places of WiMAX activity, and Russia, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, Pakistan, and India are the engines of growth in their respective regions.
 
The report says that Motorola (News - Alert) increased its revenue share lead in the combined worldwide WiMAX equipment and device market in 1Q10. Also, mobile operators with WiMAX plan to migrate to LTE as their 4G solution, even though having an "offload" network based on either WiMAX or WiFi (News - Alert) is becoming a valuable auxiliary component of mobile broadband offerings.
 
The "WiMAX 2" 802.16m standard would support data rates of more than 300Mbps and backward compatibility with previous versions of WiMAX, the report says.
 
Infonetics' quarterly WiMAX report provides market size, market share, forecasts, and analysis for 802.16d, 802.16e, and 802.16m network equipment, devices, and subscribers.
 
The report features a service provider WiMAX Deployment tracker following more than 300 service providers with live WiMAX services, network rollouts in progress, and trials, studied  by region, country, network, subscribers, and announced vendors.
 

Anamika Singh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anamika's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Patrick Barnard


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