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We have conducted a survey of WiMAX operators to illustrate market progress to date and as the basis for our forecast of how the market will evolve during the 2009 to 2014 period. The survey covers Mobile WiMAX (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers [IEEE] 802.16e, also simply referred to as WiMAX in the rest of this paper) operators with over 1,000 subscribers worldwide, split into six geographical regions.
This paper reports on subscribership, service revenues, usage models, devices, traffic, base stations deployed, and plans to move to the next generation of WiMAX—WiMAX 2. Based on IEEE 802.16m, WiMAX 2 is set to become an International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) Advanced Fourth Generation (4G) technology.
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