2008: A Critical
Year for WiMAX
“So far, Huawei has signed six WiMAX 802.16e commercial
contracts around the world, and all these networks will
be put into operation within the year. In addition, we have
established over 30 customer pilot projects with operators
in different regions,“ says Cai Liqun, president of Huawei’s
WiMAX product line division.
By these achievements in the 3G field, Huawei is acquir-
ing an influential position in the wireless communications
equipment industry, and Huawei’s attitude towards WiMAX
and its understanding of WiMAX became a hot topic during
the WiMAX summit.
Benefiting from experience in wireless
broadband technologies
Today, all the world’s top 100 operators are paying close
attention to the development of WiMAX. Among the top
WiMAX is bidding to join the 3G camp. Once it succeeds,
50 operators, including wireless operator Sprint, fixed line
the worldwide united spectrum will further push forward
operator British Telecommunications and integrated serv-
the development of WiMAX. Compared with other 3G
ices operator Etisalat, many are also planning their WiMAX
wireless broadband technologies, such as UMTS and HSPA,
network deployment.
according to Cai Liqun, the deployment cost of WiMAX
According to Cai Liqun, WiMAX is hot because mobile
is perhaps not a strong advantage, but WiMAX provides a
operators want to gain higher broadband data access capa-
higher throughput and therefore a lower per-bit cost, and this
bilities, fixed line and integrated operators want to enter the
makes WiMAX attractive enough to operators.
“mobile and broadband” blue ocean market, and new opera-
“So far there is much experience in data service operation
tors certainly want to find means for differentiated compe-
with UMTS, HSPA, DORA and other wireless broadband
tition. WiMAX, with its strong mobile broadband access
technologies, and WiMAX can draw lessons from this to
capability, low deployment cost, and maturity compared
avoid detours,“ said Yu Xiangping, president of Global Sales
with LTE/UMB, is the right solution.
and Marketing Dept. of Huawei’s WiMAX product line.
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