Wednesday, February 08, 2006

TelecomView Study Says WiMAX to be Significant in Mobile Market

"We forecast that WiMAX will become an important part of mobile networks," stated Ian Cox, Principal Analyst at TelecomView and coauthor of this report. "We think that WiMAX will have 16 percent of the subscribers and account for 16 percent of Capex in high-speed mobile networks in 2011." "Our business case show that the ROI for WiMAX is significantly better than 3G technologies," stated Bob Larribeau, Principal Analyst at TelecomView and coauthor of this report. "WiMAX will put the green field operator into a superior position and will push its adoption by the existing wireless carriers in order to remain competitive as well as to lower costs."