Thread: WiMax raising slower among recession

WiMax technology users is slowing down and the first quarter of this year, and emerging wireless technologies will continue to struggle, at least in this year's show Maravedis research company.

Drag on the global economic recession and new users have an average monthly income from the business users in the first quarter, according to Maravedis analyst Adlane farmers. WiMax operators also went to other types of obstacles, including the control, allocation of spectrum and delay the deployment of their own problems, he added. "I think 2009 will be another difficult year for WiMax," said farmers. "This is not decreased, but not the scale of this growth."

But WiMAX may play a key role in the rapid growth of mobile data traffic in the coming years may strain the existing 3G network, the farmers said. Even if the ultimate carrier of the plan to deploy LTE (Long Term Evolution) WiMax may use some data from the cell to uninstall 3G network, but also must live up to the sound. WiMax technology has a big start on LTE, which probably will not see in most areas of widely deployed until 2012, he said.

Maravedis survey covered the fixed and mobile WiMAX, as well as patented technology before the standards-based system. About half of these constitute the overall deployment of WiMax technology. But the overall trend in the report also applies to WiMax, he said.

The number of orders increased by 13 percent in the first quarter of 2009 compared to about 30 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, according to Maravedis. About 3.5 million around the world in wireless broadband subscribers in the first quarter of this year, of which about half of the use of WiMax, said farmers. About 40 million people signed up for wireless broadband services in the quarter. However, the number of users has reached 70 percent from the same period last year.

At the same time, residential customers spend an average of about the same amount of money each month for wireless broadband, the average small business users to spend too much money. The income of consumers is equivalent to the United States rose to 42.33 U.S. dollars to 42.43 U.S. dollars, while commercial users pay an average of 116.82 U.S. dollars, down from 122.64 U.S. dollars. With the new competition in the telecommunications market (in these cases, WiMAX providers) tend to reduce broadband rates, he pointed out.

Clearwire Corporation for the U.S. operator Sprint Nextel Corporation with support from cable operators, Intel and Google as an important deployment of the plight of factors that have hindered the growth of customers, the farmers believe that. The company is the world's largest wireless broadband operator, said about 25,000 customers in the first quarter of the total number to about 500,000 customers, he said. Maravedis have no way of knowing how many additional users registered Clearwire's WiMax service, as well as how many people the traditional network, the farmers said.

"I suspect the number is still very low," the WiMax technology, the farmers said. WiMax company Clearwire officially in only four metropolitan areas, although it has been quietly upgrading of a number of other markets. Loans in difficult markets, this is a very prudent investment, the farmers said.

"Clearwire has not enough money to do so it must be done," Farmer said. The carrier said earlier this year, will reach 100 million potential customers by the end of 2010, but farmers are suspected. In his view, Clearwire's three billion U.S. dollars of about four billion U.S. dollars to six billion U.S. dollars less than seven billion U.S. dollars it must achieve this goal, it is impossible to make the deadline.

Other challenges facing WiMAX in other countries: the number of subscribers in South Korea's WiBro technology, the local version of WiMAX, the former government fell last year to allow the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) network. The radio spectrum auction WiMax technology in India has been postponed, but operators are still uncertain what the spectrum will be in Russia, said the farmers.

All of these issues, in part because the chip and equipment manufacturers need some assurance that people want to use WiMax technology, and then put it in their products - and in turn, can support WiMAX functionality to buy portable devices should be in the main e-store machine needs network.

But the race is far from over, according to farmers. Ballot papers of the WiMax and LTE is not only a number of mobile operators in developing countries, which can make up a large portion of the global market, he said. LTE operators to consider the concerns of technical delays, suppliers and interoperability between the availability of spectrum, the survey showed.

And 3G data traffic in the outbreak of the rich countries, even in the next few months, operators may need another way to the user's data traffic, while 3G networks continue to carry out voice and bit rate, the farmers said. Greater use of frequency bands for WiMax technology, 3G in most countries, and spectrum allocation for the LTE may not even by 2011 in some areas, such as Europe, he said.

Knowing the current situation of our economy is very crucial. We have to be vigilant as to secure jobs. I hope for a very soon recovery from recession.