In their latest report, entitled “Mobile WiMAX: Global Opportunities, Strategies & Forecasts, 2007-2013″, Juniper Research forecasts that Mobile WiMAX will be subscribed by 80 million people within 5 years. The main issue for this success story are availability of suitable devices and service differentiation.

The report found that:

• The value of Mobile WiMAX service revenues globally will grow to over $23bn per annum by 2013.
• The top Mobile WiMAX markets will be the USA, Japan and South Korea.
• Over 10 countries will have Mobile WiMAX device markets in excess of $100m per annum.
• There are several wildcard factors could significantly increase the size of the market including the emergence of very low cost laptops, and adding broadband capability to a range of devices including portable music/MP3 players, and games consoles.

Full coverage can be downloaded from their official site.

Source: intomobile

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 Print Posted by Amir Karimuddin on December 14th, 2007