The Road to LTE Worldwide: Is WiMAX Really the Enemy?
The biggest impediment to LTE growth is the success of 3G and HSPA and HSPA+ networks. Mobile operators will leverage their existing infrastructures for as long as they possibly can.
The competing technology WiMAX can either be seen as a detriment to LTE growth or a driver of LTE growth. While WiMAX appears successful, it is apparent that LTE will emerge as the wireless broadband standard of the future. LTE benefits from WiMAX because many companies can repurpose their WiMAX intellectual property to compete in the LTE market.
The report takes an in-depth look at LTE and competing technologies on the road to the roll-outs of LTE. It begins by examining the move from 3G UMTS to LTE-Advanced and the relative growth drivers and inhibitors of the transition including usage patterns, net neutrality, spectrum and radio issues, backhaul, devices, and other important factors. It then addresses WiMAX and the effect that WiMAX has on LTE. Finally, it provides the LTE subscriber forecast and forecast for portable devices, mobile handsets, residential devices, and M2M devices with LTE.
The WiMAX chipset market continues to gain steady momentum. Mobile WiMAX has all but displaced fixed WiMAX in new deployment. Actual WiMAX networks, planned networks, and networks in development increase monthly. New devices drive the market as USB dongles and mobile PCs with embedded are available today, with WiMAX-enabled cellular handsets just around the corner.
WiMAX chipset technology has already moved beyond multiple chips, each with one specific function, i.e., a baseband processor chip and a separate RFIC, to a market where integrated single-chip solutions and modules are the vendor and manufacturer preference. A small group of semiconductor manufacturers have emerged as the WiMAX chipset leaders, changing the market landscape with innovative single-chip solutions.
WiMAX Chipsets: "e" Is the New Black looks at the WiMAX chipset market and provides: -An overview of the state of the WiMAX market including deployments, regional updates, frequencies and spectrums, and emerging WiMAX applications -WiMAX standards and technology update -WiMAX chipset landscape -WiMAX chipset architecture -Key WiMAX IC vendor landscape -WiMAX chipset unit shipments, revenue, and ASPs
4Q09 WiMAX/LTE Contracts, Deployments, Infrastructure, and Subscriptions Database
This report provides an in-depth look at WiMAX and LTE being deployed around the world. It provides summary data by bandwidth, technology, and region in pivot tables for quick analysis of trends using a combination of subscriptions, contract awards, deployments, and base station data. Furthermore, detailed data on contract awards for upcoming networks and new network deployments are provided in pivot tables for targeted views by country, service provider, and infrastructure vendor for in-depth analysis.
This report includes: -Five-year subscriptions forecasts for LTE and WiMAX by region -Five-year base station forecasts for WiMAX base station sectors, stations, and revenue -Contract awards and deployments for LTE and WiMAX by region, country, service provider, infrastructure vendor, date, availability, and value.
Wi-Fi Hotspots: Cellular Handsets and Portable Devices Drive a Market Renaissance
The hotspot market is entering into a revival period marked by renewed interest from communication providers and increased usage among both business and leisure users. This report examines the source behind this renaissance and the potential for future growth, including: -Mobile operator strategies and Wi-Fi as a medium of 3G data traffic offload -Cable provider strategies and hotspots as a medium of delivering content, specifically Internet video content, to consumers -The revision of business strategies shifting to free and bundled access -New application potential including mobile video and location-based services -As LTE and WiMAX networks develop further in 2010 and 2011, what the impact will be on hotspots
The report includes: -Venue and usage forecast by venue category and region -In-Stat TAP survey results on hotspot usage and perceptions -Trends in hotspots access devices and widescale adoption of Wi-Fi enabled handsets -Classification of venue types and related usage trends -Analysis of market structure and key player competitive positioning -Discussion of various trends in deployment strategies, such as branded, geographically isolated, and venue specific deployments
3Q09 WiMAX/LTE Contracts, Deployments, Infrastructures, and Subscriptions Database
This report provides an in-depth look at WiMAX and LTE deployments around the world. It provides summary data by bandwidth, technology, and region in pivot-tables for quick analysis of trends using a combination of subscriptions, contract awards, deployments, and base station data. Furthermore, detailed data on contract awards for upcoming networks and new network deployments are provided in pivot-tables for targeted views by country, service provider, and infrastructure vendor for in-depth analysis.
This report includes: -Five-year subscription forecasts for LTE and WiMAX by region -Five-year base station forecasts for WiMAX base station sectors, stations, and revenue -Contract awards and deployments for LTE and WiMAX by region, country, service provider, infrastructure vendor, date, availability, and value.
This report provides an update to In-Stat's annual 802.16e, mobile WiMAX, device forecast. Due to the rapidly changing nature of the market in terms of vendor and service provider support for the technology, In-Stat will start updating the forecast twice a year. Some changes since the last device forecast, published December of 2008, are: -Alcatel-Lucent’s repositioning its WiMAX infrastructure as an “enhanced DSL” service versus a true mobile technology -Deployment schedule for India and the US -Increased momentum for LTE -Nokia cancelled production of its N810 WiMAX-embedded mobile Internet device (MID).
This report provides global 802.16e device forecasts (as well as the total device forecasts) for the following: -Consumer premises equipment -Laptop cards and USB modems -Embedded mobile PCs -MIDs and UMPCs -Handsets -Personal media players
2Q09 WiMAX/LTE Contract, Deployment, Infrastructure, and Subscriptions Database
This report provides an in-depth look at WiMAX and LTE being deployed around the world. It provides summary data by bandwidth, technology, and region in pivot-tables for quick analysis of trends using a combination of subscriptions, contract awards, deployments, and base station data. Furthermore, detailed data on contract awards for upcoming networks and new network deployments are provided in pivot-tables for targeted views by country, service provider, and infrastructure vendor for in-depth analysis.
This report includes: -Five-year subscriptions forecasts for LTE and WiMAX by region -Five-year base station forecasts for WiMAX base station sectors, stations, and revenue -Contract awards and deployments for LTE and WiMAX by region, country, service provider, infrastructure vendor, date, availability, and value.
Delayed Departure: Will In-Flight Broadband Take Off?
In-flight broadband, since the days of Connexion by Boeing, has struggled to take off. Recently, the market has received new impetus, with a new generation of in-flight broadband providers, including Aircell, Row44, and Panasonic. While these providers have encountered barriers in introducing in-flight broadband over the past year, it appears that many of these have been overcome and now these providers are ready to begin large scale deployments. Several US airlines have committed to full fleet deployments, including American, Delta, and Southwest. While the economy continues to place pressure on the market, airlines appear to be planning beyond the current environment in making investments for in-flight communication technologies, such as in-flight broadband. This service will also have to compete with other emerging in-flight entertainment and communication services, such as DBS video offerings and GSM-based voice and data services (in international markets).
This report includes: -Forecasts of broadband and DBS video, including installments, equipment revenues, usage, and usage revenues, with segmentation regarding the length of the flights. -Expectations of in-flight IPTV introduction and ensuing revenue. -Detailed comparisons of principal players, in terms of technologies, business models, and market share. -Correlations with the hotspot market and strategies learned from terrestrial Wi-Fi services that can be applied to the in-flight market.
4G, whatever that might actually be, tends to suck all the air out of the room when people are talking about mobile broadband. This overlooks today's mobile broadband networks, generically called 3G, and the fact that there remains a lot of life left in 3G. For at least the next half-decade, more people will experience mobile broadband via a 3G network than they will from either of the two technologies (LTE, WiMAX) commonly referred to as 4G. Of two of the most populace countries of the world, one of them, China, has just started deploying 3G, and the other, India, hasn't even licensed spectrum to operators. Even in the US, T-Mobile just launched its 3G network last year. The advent of the next wireless technology generation hardly means the end of the previous. Included in this report are the following:
-All base station forecasts segmented by GSM, CDMA2000, CDMA EV-DO, WCDMA/HSPA+, TD-SCDMA, and LTE -Base station forecasts for both total deployed, and yearly shipments -Handset forecasts by GSM, CDMA, WCDMA/HSPA+, LTE, and TD-SCDMA -Data revenue forecasts broken down by 2 & 3G, across six global regions -2 & 3G data ARPU across six global regions -3G network deployments by region and infrastructure vendor -Vendor profiles
Mobile WiMAX—Global Review of Infrastructure and Services
The market for 802.16e, or mobile WiMAX, infrastructure remains strong. Broadband communications have become a crucial communications tool, so the demand remains even in the face of a waning economy. Unfortunately for many vendors, however, success in sales of WiMAX infrastructure will not be reflected in their overall earnings. WiMAX revenues are still dwarfed by sales of traditional cellular infrastructure.
This report includes the following:
- Analysis of key market events from 2008. - Deployment data by region, spectrum, and infrastructure vendor. - Analysis of what selected vendors are doing in the market. - Five year regional forecast of WiMAX service subscriptions. The regions covered are Asia/Pacific, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North America, Middle East/Africa, and Caribbean/Latin America. - Separate subscription forecasts for United States, South Korea, Japan, and India. - Service revenue forecasts. - Five year infrastructure forecast for base station sectors and total base stations. Shipments segmented between micro/pico base stations and macro base stations. - Revenue forecasts for base station shipments. - Vendors discussed in the report are Alcatel-Lucent, Airspan, Alvarion, Cisco, Motorola, Samsung, and Huawei.
