Wimaxequipment market revenue was up
6% in the third quarter, fuelled by new and expanding
operatorWimaxrollouts of the long-range
wireless broadband technology.
The market was worth £103m in the third quarter, following a 14%
jump in the second quarter, said analyst Infonetics Research.
Worldwide unit shipments of fixed and mobile Wimax equipment
were up 16% in the third quarter, said the analyst.
"In addition to Sprint-Nextel's much-publicised rollout,
carriers including
Vodafone, Brasil Telecom, Telmex, SK Telecom, Wateen and NTT,
among many others, have made a commitment to Wimax, demonstrating
that adoption is reaching all corners of the globe," said
Infonetics analyst Richard Webb.
"Also, this quarter, the ITU added mobile Wimax as an approved
3G technology into its official IMT-2000 set of standards,
consolidating Wimax's position as a technology with a long-term
future and posing a more serious challenge to W-CDMA and CDMA2000
1xEV-DO network deployments," said Webb.
With Cisco's entrance into the Wimax market after its
acquisition of Navini, the market "is poised for big growth in
2008", Webb said.