monica.paolini posted on June 28, 2010 10:00
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Key forecast results:
- More than 90 million subscribers worldwide, with 47% of them in Asia Pacific
- $24 billion in service revenues
- $22/month ARPU53% of subscribers will use WiMAX as a mobile technology
- 31% of subscribers will use dongles, 7% embedded laptops, 27% phones or other devices. Remaining subscribers will use desktop or outdoor subscriber units
- Strong subscriber growth over the past year has demonstrated the appeal of WiMAX technology
- Operators are aggressively expanding their networks to keep up with the growth in demand
- WiMAX operators will increasingly push mobile services and devices
- Today 66% of subscribers use WiMAX as a fixed broadband service; by 2014, only 47% of subscribers will
- On average across operators that release this data, WiMAX subscribers generate 10 GB/month
- The new WiMAX release, WiMAX 2, is anticipated to meet the increased demand in traffic levels and to improve coverage