The Economic Recession Is Accelerating the Change in Consumer Internet Spending
At the end of 2008 the WiMAX users all over the world are two and a half million, a small increase of 13% over the first quarter and about a 90% increase in the past year.
The revenues of the WIMAX operators are reducing, or even declining (for example WiBro in Korea).
The economic downturn is accelerating the changing in consumer spending towards flat rates for broadband wireless and replacement of landline services.
These are very difficult times for mobile WiMAX, sellers as Telsima and WiMAX operators such as Tata are fighting to fund their WiMAX plans. In addition, the WiMAX is losing ground in comparison to the new standard 4g technology among Tier 1 mobile operators worldwide.
“The estimates are however not all foscem. More mobile air cards devices were certified during the quarter, and the growth rate for base station sector deployments continues to outstrip that of customer premise equipment, which indicates that networks are expanding ahead” noted C. Garza, WiMAX team leader.
“WiMAX is just now entering a phase of commercial availability that makes volume applications including utility monitoring, bus and metro mobile broadband and embedded consumer applications achievable. Furthermore, the lean WiMAX ecosystem has already reached price points for ICs, modules and devices to compete in volume markets,” said Mr Syputa, senior analyst at Maravedis.
Maravedis indicated that WiMAX deployments in the next two years are being revised to more modest projections The average subscriber base per deployment remains very modest at 15,000 and contributes to the lack of volumes facing the emerging device system. Clearwire USA continues to be the top operator in terms of the number of customers, with 469,000 aircards subscribers in the United States at the end of the third quarter 2008, an increase of about 2% compared with 462000 subscribers reported in the previous quarter. The launch of the Clear service by Clearwire is yet in its babyhood. The subscriber are 70% residential against 30% of business.
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