Okay. Maybe the world doesn't need another WiMAX market research report. But this one from Research and Markets is short:

WiMAX - A Market Update (2006-2007), gives an overview of the current WiMAX market, reviewing potential applications and users along with the upcoming trends.

Key Findings:

• Most of the WiMAX deployments across the world are still in a trial phase providing only high-speed internet service but, in future, the largest markets for WiMAX will be for mobile applications.

• The number of worldwide WiMAX users is forecasted to reach 14.9 million in 2009, creating over $13.8 billion dollars in service revenues for WiMAX market.

• WiMAX is expected to become a predominant portion of the broadband wireless access market by 2009 because of the wide support it has achieved from leading equipment vendors.

• The Asia-pacific region has the largest share in terms of WiMAX subscribers, attributed to large population and emerging nature of economies in the region.

• The regions like Eastern Europe and Latin America are increasingly adapting to WiMAX technology due to less broadband penetration level.

• In more developed regions like in Western Europe, WiMAX adoption has been slow due to the high levels of broadband penetration.

• North America is by far the leading region in terms of the number of WiMAX licences, with a total of 394 WiMAX license holders.

The industry major players include Alvarion, Adaptix, Airspan, Proxim, Redline, Siemens, etc.

• Motorola announced deals in Pakistan and Japan, where it was awarded a contract by Softbank to build a trial mobile WiMax network in Tokyo. Under that agreement, Motorola will supply a WiMax network consisting of five access points and 25 prototype mobile WiMax handheld devices.

• Alvarion has announced that Poland's Netia has placed an order for its BreezeMAX 3600 equipment sufficient for a 20 city WiMAX network. Alcatel will install the end-to-end WiMAX solution.

• Airspan Networks received a follow-on order from a customer in Ireland. Last Mile Broadband of Ireland began buying Airspan's WipLL and 802.16a-based AS4030 products in 2004. The latest purchase is for 35 of Airspan's AS.MAX base stations and more than 1,000 ProST CPE devices, which Last Mile Broadband will use to launch new higher speed data and VoIP services.
• Proxim, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Terabeam, has provided the broadband wireless equipment to power a public Wi-Fi network at Dubai Internet City (DIC). DIC has a public Wi-Fi network powered by Proxim’s AP-4000 and Tsunami MP.11 products. The enhanced version of its Tsunami MP.11, is said to the capabilities of fixed and mobile Wimax for license-free frequency bands worldwide with features such as roaming with seamless hand-offs.
• India's Bharti Airtel has awarded Ericsson a $1 billion contract to expand its GSM/GPRS network. The three-year services agreement will develop and deploy Bharti's network, enabling the operator to expand in rural India and reach all towns and cities in 15 regions. Ericsson will also upgrade the network with mobile softswitch (Media Gateway and MSC Servers), the solution that paves the way to an all-IP network. Ericsson is a long-term Bharti partner, managing more than 70 percent of its GSM/GPRS network in 15 regions in India.

The number of mobile phone users in China hit 431.8 million in July, far and away the most of any single country in the world. That's nearly double that of the U.S., which stood at an estimated 218.2 million as of Wednesday, according to the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA).

PC World reviews broadband access around the world. They report many countries are substantially ahead of the United States.

In the United Kingdom, you can buy 24Mbps DSL service. In Denmark, some people have fiber-optic connections as fast as 100 mbps. And in Italy and Spain, broadband service is cheap and dial-up service is free. WikiPedia has worldwide broadband rankings.

Perhaps Cingular's Kevin Martin is PROUD that we're 13th. Don't expect the Bush administration's AWS band to deliver any real broadband competition. Traditional cellular companies are buying 80% of the spectrum.

While Cingular may have needed the AWS band in 2002, the FCC approved the $40 billion buyout of AT&T Wireless by Cingular in 2004. Now Cingular is pretty well fixed. Meanwhile, T-Mobile is buying up the 3G Band (Scam). Who's the real winner here?

It's a duplicitious world. Is that unfair or simply the truth? I'm not sure myself.

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