Abstract
Against a burgeoning mobile subscriber base in the Asia/Pacific region, which
currently stands at 859.4 million with over 130 million being 3G subscribers
(including CDMA1X subscribers), a robust growth in data usage broadband
wireless access (BWA) technologies has entered the wireless space. Telecom
providers introduced BWA technologies to tap into the wireless trend,
accelerate wide market diffusion, and to provide consumers with an alternative
or complementary value proposition. However, a lack of standardization and
interoperability issues have not augured well in adoption rates for most
proprietary BWA technologies, although much attention and interest in the past
year has been given to WiMAX, an evolution of BWA.
WiMAX is gaining momentum now, considering the new opportunity brought by the
802.16e standard (mobile version of WiMAX). In-Stat's recent reports show that
the WiMAX subscribers will exceed 14 million by the end of 2011, which is
still largely lacking behind 3G adoption.
This report discusses the key initiatives for wireless broadband technologies,
and a comparison for current broadband services, cellular services, and
wireless broadband services for all 13 countries in the Asia/Pacific region.
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