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In a report issued today, Juniper Research (News - Alert) predicts that Mobile WiMAX 802.16e will begin to take off during the 2010-2013 period. It will, according to the report, pass 80 million subscribers by 2013.

 

Among the report's major findings are that the value of Mobile WiMAX service revenues will grow to more than $23 billion per year by 2013, that more than ten nations will have Mobile WiMAX (News - Alert) markets in 2013, and that the top markets will be the US, Japan and South Korea.

 

"We are seeing more and more Mobile WiMAX 802.16e trials and network contracts - over 50 have been announced so far in 2007 alone: the market is very active in all regions of the world,” said report author Howard Wilcox. “We anticipate that mobile usage will develop after initial demand for fixed and portable services - WiMAX 802.16e is a flexible platform that can operate in all three modes of usage. Mobile WiMAX will represent a single digit proportion of the global mobile broadband base by 2013. This will be a tremendous achievement for this new technology platform which has recently been boosted by the ITU's endorsement of it as an IMT2000 specification."

 

"Mobile WiMAX will be a device-based technology, whether handsets, laptops, datacards, or other types of consumer device such as media players,” Wilcox continued. “The twin challenges are for vendors to produce the right devices at the right time and price, and for Mobile WiMAX service providers to differentiate their offerings from existing mobile operators. Success in these challenges will accelerate market development."

 

Juniper Research assesses the current and future status of Mobile WiMAX. Its findings are based on interviews with senior executives of leading operators and in the Mobile WiMAX market. The report includes forecasts for more than 30 countries, as well as case studies describing how operators are using 802.16e Mobile WiMAX in their networks, and development plans for the future.

 

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