14 DAY TRIAL // ABI research has done its job and looked into the future in order to see what is likeliest to happen with the WiMAX wireless solution, and the outlook appears to be quite optimistic, the number of subscribers predicted to reach about 59 million.
Current marketing conditions are one of the major elements that companies take into account when devising their marketing strategies.
Still, in order to make viable long-term plans, one needs to at least have a vague idea of what to expect.
Predicting what may be and publishing forecasts is the job of analysts, and ABI Research has just published what it believes will occur on the WiMAX front in the next five years.
The research material released by ABI Research looks into why the roll out of WiMAX did not happen sooner.
The study also predicts that, by the year 2015, about 59 million people from around the world will have subscribed with WiMAX.
Lavation is the current market leader in this area, followed Closely by Samsung and NSN, with fourth place falling to Huawei.
The main factor behind the growth is, according to the researchers, the fact that most WiMAX base station vendors also provide hardware compatible with both LTE and WiMAX.
“WiMAX’s growth has not been as early or as strong as many would have hoped several years ago,” says Xavier Ortiz.
“The recession certainly played a role, making investors wary and delaying some deployments. On top of that, delays in the formation of the new Clearwire have constrained the rest of the ecosystem to some degree, from subscribers to devices and chipsets,” he added.
“Depending on the particular vendor, much of the hardware in a WiMAX base station may be re-usable for TD-LTE,” Ortix noted.
“Service providers adopting WiMAX but interested in upgrading their networks have been choosing those infrastructure vendors that can offer the options of staying with WiMAX (moving towards 802.16m) or moving towards TD-LTE. This creates a sense of reassurance for service providers,” he concluded.