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India will have 6.9 million mobile and fixed WiMAX connections by the end of 2011, but will continue to be a niche market for the wireless technology until 2009, according to Gartner.
The proliferation of WiMAX in the country is likely to be delayed until 2009 when the Indian government is expected to release mobile wireless spectrum, Naresh Singh, principal research analyst at Gartner, said Wednesday.
Until mobile WiMAX is available after spectrum is released, operators will be offering fixed WiMAX that will compete for customers and in price with low-cost broadband technologies such as DSL, according to Singh. Operators offering fixed wireless WiMAX will also be primarily targeting India's small PC user base of about 21.6 million, rather than its larger number of mobile device users, Singh said.
Last year in India, PC sales totaled 6.5 million units, according to IDC India. In contrast, the country is adding more than 8 million mobile phone subscribers a month, with a total of 251 million at the end of February, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The country had 3.47 million broadband connections at the end of February, TRAI said.
Gartner has forecast that WiMAX connections in India will more than double from 1.7 million in 2009 to 4 million in 2010.
The Indian government has been planning to use WiMAX to address the digital divide and provide connectivity to rural areas. As there aren't a lot of devices supporting WiMAX in rural areas, and because of spectrum limitations, the only justifiable deployment in rural areas is WiMAX broadband, using point-to-point 802.16 for the specification, to villages, schools and hospitals, Gartner said. From the access point, individual access would then be available through a Wi-Fi mesh, it added.
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WiMAX to total only 6.9 Million by 2011?By Amitabh on March 27, 2008, 2:04 amGartner predicts 6.9 Million WiMAX Users in India by 2011 March 26, 2008 A report from the Gartner group ( see CIOL Network news) says that the number of WiMAX...
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