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WiMAX Mobile at a
Cross Roads
Other Topics: WiMAX competes with
DSL, Intel and Sprint team on WiMAX
New Maravedis Wireless Broadband Research Study Projects Market
Growth and Analyzes Competing Mobile Wireless Broadband Technologies
Montreal, Canada - Monday, March 21, 2005 – Maravedis today announced a
comprehensive WiMAX and wireless broadband market research report
entitled “WiMAX and Broadband Wireless (Sub-11Ghz) Worldwide Market
Analysis and Trends 2005-2010”. The 270 page third edition study reports
that the broadband wireless market (sub-11Ghz) has grown from $430
million in 2003 to $562 million in 2004, a 30% increase. Maravedis
projects that the market will exceed $2 billion by the end of 2009. |
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“The top two pre-requisites for WiMAX success according to service
providers surveyed is a CPE below $300 and higher throughput” says
Adlane Fellah, principal researcher and founder of Maravedis. According
to Robert Syputa, co-author and senior analyst of Maravedis, “Wireless
broadband is clearly at a crossroads. Convergence is taking place
between the technology road maps of WiMAX/802.16 and advanced 3GPP,
3.5G-4G cellular systems. These technologies are on a collision course
and will provide similar bandwidth and significant market overlap by
2010.”
Fellah continued, “Service providers and end-users will benefit from the
adoption of WiMAX systems which will help reduce equipment and component
costs through integration and economies of scale. We expect the cost
reduction impact to be mostly on the CPE and foresee data only CPE at
less than $100 by 2010.”
The adoption of broadband wireless access (BWA) is driven by the overall
explosion in demand for broadband services. Vendors have made a lot of
progress in terms of product enhancement and cost reduction, thus
helping the adoption of BWA as a viable alternative or complement to DSL
and cable. Extensive research among regulators worldwide indicates that
mobility will face challenges in terms of spectrum availability and
service regulation:
“3.5GHz remains mostly a band allocated to fixed only services in 77% of
the countries surveyed. However the regulators are starting to revise
their positions to allow portable services in a first step towards
allowing full mobility at 3.5GHz. In most of Europe 2.5-2.69 GHz band is
exclusively reserved for UMTS mobile services and is therefore not
available to BWA and WiMAX service providers”, added Adlane Fellah.
Further, WiMAX will not resolve all problems service providers are
facing today and proprietary systems will continue to contribute greatly
to BWA’s success, within their niche markets. Both proprietary and WiMAX
compliant systems will continue to improve coverage and penetration
limitations but no system can go beyond the laws of physics and every
deployment will face different challenges.
The report provides in-depth analysis of 3GPP technologies, TD-CDMA and
802.20 vs. WiMAX in the mobile space and explains why the next two years
will be critical for WiMAX faith.
The report contains research, analysis and forecasts for point to point
and point to multi-point systems derived from interviews of service
providers, regulators in fifty countries, 802.16 chipset vendors, WiMAX
and proprietary system vendors, as well as large infrastructure
suppliers.
“WiMAX and Broadband Wireless (Sub-11Ghz) Worldwide Market Analysis and
Trends 2005-2010” is available now at U$3,495.00 for a single user
license.
About Maravedis
Maravedis is an objective, third party research and analysis firm
focusing on broadband wireless access technologies including WiMAX,
802.20, TD-CDMA and wireless local loop systems. Maravedis’ mission is
be the most trusted bridge between the world of emerging technologies
and the world of real deployments and sound business models.
Maravedis has established itself over the years as the most credible and
reliable resource for market intelligence in the broadband wireless
industry. Maravedis works with equipment vendors, service providers, and
the investment community to produce a sound analysis of equipment
shipments, emerging trends and realistic market forecasts worldwide.
Contact
Maravedis Inc.
665 Guy Street; Suite 6
Montreal, QC
H3J 2V5 Canada
Tel: (305) 865-1006
Fax: (514) 313-5465
www.maravedis-bwa.com |
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