• What is WiMAX?
  • WiMax Reduce Cost of Broadband Wireless
  • Because WiMAX is important for phone operators
  • Is Mobile WiMAX target market?

WiMax Reduce Cost of Broadband Wireless

Fixed wireless access based on WiMAX should succeed because it will reduce costs and solve the continuous growth in user demand for more speed and bandwidth.

There is always a curve, and for businesses is lower costs and WiMAX is the next logical step to achieve this.

In our country there are several phone and started to enter the business of wireless Internet, but are still CDMA or 3G technology. In fact there is a local firm that already have signed with Intel to support WiMAX, although not yet implemented. And they have not done so since the technology has not yet been standardized.

Currently only 0.5 percent of low-speed connections called broadband wireless in Guatemala, with the above can be expected that a local company to invest in WiMAX first have to remove the costs of old technologies such as ISDN and ADSL, which until 2004 were sold locally and are
Internet service further growth of dominant phone in Guatemala.

Apparently not have realized that over 50 percent of people will be impossible to recruit broadband through fixed lines, and will use the wireless option.

Because WiMAX is important for cellular operators

A recent study by ABI Research, show that the WiMAX service either fixed or mobile will be very important for the telephone and help them get off the congestion of its cellular data networks and prepare them for information technologies beyond 3G.

The study revealed that a year ago there was great excitement about the operation of WiMAX, which at the end of the day proved to be too optimistic. It made the mistake of making extravagant claims about the performance of new technology in order to engage the major competitors in the industry. It has been proven in the real world outside the laboratory speeds depend on the number of users per sector and the distance from the base station, which the service will be slower than previously suggested.

In this study, due to the high amount invested by operators in technologies such as 3G, one can question the need to deploy WiMAX, including mobile WiMAX. However, the technology will be adopted worldwide and will have a very important role in telecommunications.

Eventually, the mobile WiMAX service is part of the network of suppliers of mobile phones, which can alleviate network congestion in urban areas. Suppliers use it to download the data traffic. At the same time, WiMAX is becoming the cornerstone for 4G mobile services, which will be based on related technologies.

It is very likely that the next generation of cellular data service after 3G called 4G, OFDM uses the same technology that works with WiMAX, cellular technology and not as you might think.

What is the target market for WiMAX?

The industry is divided over the fact that WiMAX is more suitable for rural markets and metropolitan areas. The situation has become more complicated since the announcement the 802.16e standard for mobile WiMAX, which will integrate WiMAX technology in PC cards.

While some companies see the WiMAX technology as a business opportunity to see other telephone WiMAX as a threat to their current 3G infrastructure. The truth is that WiMAX is a complementary technology to existing wireless solutions (wireless).

According to the WiMAX Forum, the industry is at a stalemate. It is now possible for carriers testing pre-WiMAX technology, using equipment called * CPE's, this term refers to the antennas and routers that support WiMAX. The CPE's (customer-premise equipment) will be supplied or installed at the customer's home or office. The costs of the CPE will remain between $ 250 and $ 300 until the end of 2005, following an expected fall below $ 100 by 2008.

But the forum has not yet given its approval for any product is marketed WiMAX. This is because they are still doing compatibility tests at CETECOM, laboratory located in Spain, and the expected results of these tests by the end of the year.

* CPE, such as those used by Yego to offer Internet service via pre-WiMAX.

Originally published in February 2006

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