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Research and Markets has announced the addition of broadband strategies for the mobile market to its offering. WiMAX is emerging as a technology that can compete with mobile data networks.

Operators such as Korea Telecom and SK Telecom in Korea along with Sprint and BellSouth in the United States have announced plans or intentions to deploy mobile WiMAX technologies. Mobile WiMAX gives the wireline carriers an opportunity to enter the mobile wireless market with better performance and lower costs than the 3G technology being deployed by mobile carriers today. We expect that many of the current mobile carriers will also adopt mobile WiMAX technologies to provider higher speed and to lower their costs.

This report discusses the technical and regulatory factors that are leading to the deployment of WiMAX mobile services. It discusses the strategies of 12 service providers offering high-speed wireless data services and 12 systems and component companies that are addressing this market. This report discusses how these companies expect that mobile WiMAX will affect the high-speed wireless data market.

This report presents the business case for WiMAX in mobile networks. It compares the business case for mobile WiMAX at 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz to HSDPA and shows the fundamental cost advantages that mobile WiMAX enjoy over 3G technologies. Two business cases are shown. One is for the green field operator creating a mobile WiMAX network from scratch. The second is for the established mobile carrier that uses WiMAX to supplement its existing mobile services using dual mode handsets.

The report also includes a set of market forecasts for the mobile WiMAX and the 3G markets that give a global forecast along with forecasts for Europe, Asia, North America and the rest of the world. A forecast is included for mobile WiMAX and 3G subscribers, service revenue, device shipments and value and Capex.