INTRODUCTION: This report summarizes the WiMAX Forum’s™ User, Subscriber, Operator & Country Forecasts from 2007-2012. The purpose of this forecast is to provide the WiMAX Forum prediction of the ecosystem’s worldwide growth over the next five years.

The forecast covers WiMAX™ deployments globally and is broken down by major regions – North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East/Africa.

This also includes major country or sub-regional breakouts for the USA, Canada, Japan, China, Korea, India, the Rest of Asia-Pacific Developed, the Rest of Asia-Pacific Developing, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Assumptions

Worldwide access to Broadband Internet is vital for economic growth and development. All governments must work to ensure that their nations are able to realize the benefits associated with a strong communications infrastructure. Therefore this report assumes that many countries will adopt WiMAX as a wireless Broadband Internet technology to facilitate rapid economic development. It is also assumed that the move to WiMAX, a technology that is ready for deployment now, will be preferable to waiting for alternative technologies that may not be available for three or more years.

Our assumptions for the uptake of WiMAX technology, particularly in developing areas, are based on the difficulties inherent in deploying today’s available competing technologies. Wireline technologies are slow and costly to roll out - even in some parts of developed nations.

Cellular technology is often too costly to use, does not deliver true broadband speed and does not scale to the capacity of an all-IP media-centric network. Therefore it is assumed that, throughout the forecast period, particularly aggressive WiMAX growth will take place in countries such as Brazil, China, India and Russia; and inregions such as the Americas, Middle East/Africa, Eastern Europe and Developing Asia Pacific. ...

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Evolution of the Forecast

This forecast is an ongoing project of the WiMAX Forum that will continue to be used to educate the market as the WiMAX ecosystem expands. Future iterations of this report will be more robust, with more details on numbers and methodology. As WiMAX continues to flourish on the worldwide market, future reports will in particular focus on operator and country growth.

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WiMAX Forum Certified™ products are fully interoperable and support broadband fixed, portable and mobile services. Along these lines, the WiMAX Forum works closely with service providers and regulators to ensure that WiMAX Forum Certified systems meet customer and government requirements.

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