Less Than 2 Million Global WiMAX Users, Carriers are Still Wait-and-See

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According to the figures from Maravedis, the global BWA / WiMAX subscribers increased by 26.0246 million at the first quarter of 2008, reaching a total number of 198.8246 million.


Maravedis AdlaneFellah founder and CEO said: "Even if the first quarter of 2008 WiMAX subscribers increased by over 19 percent, operators are still waiting turning point, this will accelerate the adoption and deployment of WiMAX. But its main focus on key factors Mobile WiMAX equipment certification, to reduce the pricing of CPE devices and the emergence of the ecosystem. "


WiMAXCounts quarter of the authors of the report CintiaGarza added: "Mobile WiMAX is to create a wider range of value-added services and flexible product development the key."


Maravedis senior analyst RobertSyputa said: "WiMAXCounts started tracking survey to the 264 operators, only about 50 percent of them provide HIS (high-speed Internet) business. The rest of them offer different applications, such as VoIP, Video, VPN, etc. We expect double / triple play will become the norm within the next two years. "