WiMAX Market Shares and Forecasts

Synergy Research Group’s WiMAX product provides timely analysis of WiMAX 16e, WiMAX 16d, and proprietary wireless broadband radio equipment.  The Synergy WiMAX offering delivers thorough research and analyses, forecast, market sizing, and share information, which make it a uniquely valuable and essential tool for understanding and formulating solid business plans for WiMAX networks.

WiMAX is a relatively new market and new generations of the technology, along with new applications and changing competitive technologies, create a lot of uncertainty and questions in the market, especially considering that WiMAX is a viable option for fixed or mobile broadband.  Synergy Research Group takes an unbiased look at the market and its applications with time proven insight.  Synergy believes technology choice is more regionally driven: what spectrum is currently available for use and what applications are needed in the area.  It is important to understand the market and the dynamics of any technology chosen, and WiMAX is no different.  Multiple stakeholders have multiple questions about the market, equipment vendors, service providers, chip makers, and ancillary vendors each have its own set of concerns regarding the development of WiMAX.  The WiMAX service provides the theoretical foundation and practical tools to comprehend, address, and manage the dynamic WiMAX market.

Equipment vendors will get an unbiased and accurate view of global market share.  Other questions answered are which regions are having the most success with WiMAX or other flavors of wireless broadband.  Which frequencies are operators leveraging for their deployments.  Trends in the earliest stages are revealed as CPE and base station form factors are tracked.  Pricing trends are revealed to help strategize on a region by region basis.  This information all rolls up to provide equipment vendors with solid data to plan for future resources and to best leverage their market position  for increased sales and penetration. 

Service providers have much at stake when choosing a wireless technology in which to build their networks.  he more information they have to help validate their business plan, the better.  Synergy Research Group’s WiMAX service, provides solid insight into the equipment vendor leaders and how WiMAX penetration is developing in specific regions.  Answers to the questions of what type of equipment is being used and the average price are provided.  How to build-out the network also is strategic and SIA reveals the average number of subscribers per base station.  

Chip makers have a unique position in the eco-system as they are often designing trends long before they materialize.  It is critical that they partner with OEMs who will be able to bring these visions to market.  The WiMAX service provides insight into the market in terms of leading market players.  It also gives an accurate snapshot of how chip makers' customers are performing in the market.  For future planning it shows which frequencies in which regions are the most successful. 

Stakeholders must keep a watchful eye on the trends of the equipment, and progress of equipment vendors to ensure that their research and development and marketing are in sync with the greater global eco-system.  The Synergy WiMAX service monitors offerings from equipment vendors, highlight early movement in trends and regions, keeping stakeholders abreast of all the nuances of the market. 

For all others who watch the market, it is critical to keep up with trends of the equipment that are drivers for your business’ core products.  The WiMAX service helps quantify these trends by tracking the market at the global or regional level.

Equipment vendors covered:

• Airspan
• Alcatel-Lucent
• Alvarion
• Cisco
• Huawei
• Motorola
• Nokia-Siemens Networks
• Proxim Wireless
• Qualcomm/QFT
• Redline
• Samsung
• Soma Networks
• ZTE

Market share data is refreshed on the SIA platform every 90 days, with quarterly data being delivered 40 to 45 days after the close of a given quarter. This is one of the fastest delivery schedules in the market research industry today!