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WiMAX equipment market to hit $5B in 2013

Monday, August 31st, 2009

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Infonetics Research is calling for a 4.9 billion dollar (US) market in WiMAX equipment worldwide by 2013.

With the overall WiMAX market growing 12%, to $255M USD, Infonetics feels that WiMAX has weathered the bottoming of the tech slowdown, showing notable growth in India and the United States.

The U.S., in fact, will be one of the tougher markets for WiMAX to penetrate. “Mature” markets like the U.S. and Europe have well established internet infrastructures, even if the U.S.’ infrastructure is decades behind everyone else. A new service that will have difficulty being price competitive and require new hardware (compared to WiFi & Ethernet) will have trouble penetrating the massive monopolies of cable and DSL networks.

WiMAX’s chance to shine will be in developing companies, aka emerging markets, where the customers are more open to alternatives and existing infrastructures aren’t as strongly rooted or are more expensive.

Source: [DigiTimes]

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Northern Michigan University gets WiMax with ThinkPads to match

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

lenovo_wimax_motorola_logosNorthern Michigan University has partnered with Motorola and Lenovo to get the campus bathed in WiMax goodness.

If you’re one of the lucky 3,000 of 9,000 or so students, you’ll be receiving a new Lenovo ThinkPad will support the slick new WiMax network that is deployed across the campus. Laptop and desktop adapters will also be made available so students with non-WiMax equipped computers can parkate as well. NMU already had WiFi nearly everywhere on campus, as most universities do these days, WiMax will allow for continuous coverage nearly everywhere on campus and in town.

While previous WiFi hot spots had ended up covering about 10% of Marquette, the city where NMU is based, WiMax ends up covering almost 100% of the city. Part of NMU’s licensing agreement restricts the network’s use only for education and government use, making this the perfect opportunity to add new capabilities to other primary schools in the area.

Source: [DigitalJournal]

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