Gary Kim at Fat Pipe makes some interesting predictions about WiMax here
(http://www.fatpipeonline.com/showArticle.php?id=60)
In 2010, the forecasted WiMAX subscriptions in North America will
represent 2 percent of that for mobile 2.5G/3G and 66 percent of the
subscriptions for mobile data cards," say Philip Marshall, Yankee Group
vice president, and Tara Howard, Yankee Group analyst.
Clearwire has deployed fixed and portable wireless service in targeted
U.S. markets using the 2.5-GHz spectrum and NextNet infrastructure.
Recently, it announced that it has more than 150,000 subscribers in the
U.S. market and is seeing rapid growth across all its markets, earning
an average of $35.40 per subscriber.
In July 2006, Intel and Motorola invested $900 million in Clearwire, and
as part of the transaction, Motorola acquired NextNet. Yankee Group
expects Motorola to migrate the NextNet technology to 802.16e during the
next 24 months.
Yankee Group estimates the number of WiMAX subscribers will increase
from 1.3 million to 7.8 million between 2006 and 2011 and that in 2011,
7 million subscribers will be using 802.16e technology.
For the sake of comparison, the percentage of WiMAX subscribers relative
to residential broadband subscribers in the North American market will
increase from 2.2 percent to 7.4 percent between 2006 and 2010.
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