Worldwide Market for WiMAX--Infrastructure, Devices, and Subscribers

SUMMARY

WiMAX continues to make gains. Network trials have become commercial deployments. Well known vendors have added the technology to their product portfolios. Despite all of the positive events of the last 12 months, WiMAX still faces much uncertainty. Investor pressure could force Sprint to pull back on its announced deployment. As the largest planned deployment, Sprint's actions could impact what other carriers do with WiMAX, and negatively impact the entire WiMAX community. Sprint's decision on WiMAX could impact up to half of all infrastructure shipments and revenues in 2008.

In this report:

• Subscriber forecasts include both users and revenues
• North America subscriber forecast broken out between US and Canada
• Asia/Pacific subscriber forecasts for 18 countries
• Updates on key market events for the last 12 months
• Infrastructure forecasts shown as base station sectors
• Device forecast for CPE, laptop cards, embedded laptops, and other portable devices

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Key Drivers/Advantages
  • Wireline Replacement
  • Fixed/Mobile/Portable
  • Alternative Broadband Provider
  • All IP
  • Ecosystem
• Key Challenges
  • Equipment Certification/Availability
  • Regulatory/Spectrum Issues
  • Intellectual Property Rights
  • Competing Technologies and Services
• Market Review of 2007
  • Asia/Pacific
  • North America
  • Europe
  • Middle East/Africa
  • Latin America
• WiMAX Infrastructure and Devices
  • Current Offering
  • Future Offerings
    • Femtocells
    • Consumer Electronic Devices
• Forecasts
  • Subscribers
    • Asia/Pacific Subscriber Forecast Segmented by Country
    • North America Subscriber Forecast Segmented by Country
    • Service Revenues
  • Infrastructure
  • Devices
• Methodology
• Glossary
• Related In-Stat Reports

List of Tables

• Table 1. Current WiMAX Infrastructure for 802.16d and 802.16e
• Table 2. Current WiMAX Devices for 802.16d and 802.16e
• Table 3. Worldwide WiMAX Subscriber Forecast (in Thousands), 2007- 2012
• Table 4. Asia/Pacific WiMAX Forecast by Country (in Thousands), 2007- 2012
• Table 5. North America WiMAX Subscriber Forecast by Country (in Thousands), 2007- 2012
• Table 6. Worldwide WiMAX Service Revenues, by Region (US$ in Thousands), 2007- 2012
• Table 7. Worldwide WiMAX Annual Base Station Sector Shipment Forecast (in Thousands), 2007- 2012
• Table 8. Worldwide WiMAX Base Station Revenues (US$ in Thousands), 2007- 2012
• Table 9. Worldwide CPE Annual Shipment Forecast (in Thousands), 2007- 2012
• Table 10. Worldwide CPE Revenues Forecast (US$ in Thousands), 2007- 2012
• Table 11. Worldwide Portable WiMAX Clients and Devices Forecast (in Thousands), 2007- 2012

List of Figures

• Figure 1. Worldwide WiMAX Subscribers (in Thousands), 2007- 2012
• Figure 2. Willingness to Switch Current Broadband Provider for One that Includes Wireless Access