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Telecommunications IDC backs cellular over WiMAX for wireless broadband
Telecommunications IDC backs cellular over WiMAX for wireless broadband | IDC backs cellular over WiMAX for wireless broadband |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 31 July 2007 | |
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Yau told iTWire: " By the time Austar and Unwired start up WiMAX services [the HDPA operators] will have ironed out all the kinks; they will have done a lot or market education and Optus will be competing head on with Next G in coverage and throughput by mid 2008... I think for the next five years in mobility broadband, the term I am using for both mobile [cellular] and wireless [other wireless] broadband, Australia will be a cellular centric culture." IDC's study, titled "Australia Mobile and Wireless Broadband 2007-2011 Forecast and Analysis: Future Proof" presents IDC's five-year forecast of the Australian mobile broadband (the name given by IDC for cellular based services) and wireless broadband (IDC's name for services delivered by WiMAX and other technologies) markets. IDC says that, in 2006 the mobile (cellular) market topped 287,000 subscribers who generated $115.7 million in service revenues. The wireless (services delivered using other broadband wireless technologies including iBurst and Unwired's services) on the other hand, had 125,300 subscribers who generated $100.3 million in service revenues. Throughout the five-year forecast period, until 2011, mobile (cellular) subscribers are expected to outnumber others by a healthy margin "due to the high-tempo developments on the mobile platform owing to the 3.5G upgrade roadmap," IDC says. |
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