Mar

WiMAX development strategy for the next two years focused on VoIP application

Market research company InfoneticsResearch Inc. has released the 2009 ~ 2011 Global WiMAX service strategy survey results showed that all the respondents, 59% of users want to 2011 to provide WiMAX-based VoIP services, which shows that based on the WiMAX voice services have the potential to become carriers of new high-revenue sources.

It is reported that during the total sample of respondents, 41% from the Asia-Pacific region, 36% from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), 18% from North America, 5% from Central Europe and Latin America ( CALA). At present, an increasing number of GSM operators are entering the WiMAX market, trying to by virtue of the most trusted consumer brands to provide basic broadband services, WiMAX is a more cost-effective option.

InfoneticsResearch analyst RichardWebb said: Although the WiMAX service strategies as well as between different operators varies between markets, but most operators are focusing on smaller investment in fixed and nomadic WiMAX broadband services, to address the shortage of the services they receive broadband market, many operators have developed over the next few years to migrate to mobile WiMAX network in the plan. We have interviewed a number of operators, most of that, VoIP, CPE and equipment subsidies, and pre-paid and specific prices are an integral part of their overall service.

At present, WiMAX industry, some of the operators, equipment manufacturers have set their sights aimed at the mobile voice service (VoIP), operators in order to migrate to mobile WiMAX network, all services, must continue to deploy network infrastructure to ensure that the coverage and can support mobile and roaming, so that mobile devices become more diverse ecosystems, consumers more affordable.

I share the view that, for operators, the development of WiMAXVoIP business data is always higher than the profits arising from other operations, in addition, the lack of wireless infrastructure in those facilities, particularly in remote areas far from the city to provide on WiMAXVoIP services, the cost will be lower than cellular networks, which are large mobile operators are optimistic about the main reason lies.

VoIP and WiMAX to achieve a good combination of complementary advantages, what they need, but also a good fit in the trend of development of communication technologies at the same time can bring enormous benefits. At present, Samsung, ECS have been developed based on the WiMAX platform, VoIP Internet phone, HTC's an integrated WiMAX / GSM dual-mode handsets to be applied in Russia and so on.

However, with the advent of mobile phones WiMAXVoIP, their business has already begun, but still faces some challenges. If the price of mobile WiMAX some expensive, power-standby time is short, plus some areas of high mobile phone penetration, if not to provide richer content than that will not be able to attract more users, which is currently facing problems.

The United States is the world's most developed country in the telecommunications industry, but also the development of the world's most dynamic VoIP one of the countries. According to statistics, by the end of 2005 the U.S. VoIP users more than 4.5 million, operating income of more than 1 billion U.S. dollars. In 2008, the entire North American VoIP subscribers reached 24 million, this year more are expected. Dynamic News predicts that mobile WiMAX services will be heavily influenced by demand for data services, voice services push is expected in 2012 in the mobile WiMAX services, voice services market share will be less than 10%, while North America will become a mobile WiMAX voice services the largest market, and in 2012 will account for 32% of the global market.