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WiMAX to Serve 133 Million Users by 2012

6:15 am on April 21, 2008 | Category: Internet, WiMAX, Wireless Technology

The WiMAX Forum, a wireless broadband industry group, is projecting that there will be more than 133 million WiMAX users globally by the year 2012.

The forecast, which is based on an independently commissioned research study, also predicts that around 70% of WiMAX users in 2012 will utilize mobile and portable versions of the technology to access the internet on smartphones and other mobile devices.

“WiMAX is here now and is the catalyst in the global marketplace to grow demand for mobile broadband Internet access,” commented WiMAX Forum president, Ron Resnick. “This new subscriber and user forecast is a solid proof point of the future growth of the thriving mobile Internet ecosystem and presents reasonable predictions of the positive progress our industry is working to achieve.”

A key driver of WiMAX subscriber growth, according to the report, will be ambitious adoption of the technology in specific regions, especially in Asia-Pacific and the Americas. The expansion of WiMAX will make high-speed internet access available in many sparsely populated areas for the first time.

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