发布时间：2008.4

摘要

The wireless broadband market continued to witness rapid developments during 2007 and early 2008. By 2008 the technologies emerging as the major wireless broadband technologies were WiFi and WiMAX. WiFi hotspots continued to open across the country, becoming commonplace in airports, cafes, offices and homes. Although several high profile municipal WiFi projects experienced difficulties, the number of cities and towns with WiFi networks continued to grow. WiMAX received a boost with the ITU’s decision to certify it as a 3G technology, thereby strengthening its position against other cellular 3G services such as HSDPA. In early 2008 Sprint Nextel and Clearwire were reviving their talks of a nationwide WiMAX network. In addition, the commencement in January 2008 of the 700MHz auction will likely result in significant new WiMAX investments during 2008/09. However, Long Term Evolution is looming as a competing platform with Verizon Wireless announcing LTE trials to commence in 2008.

目录及图表

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Wireless broadband market
  
  • 2.1 Overview
    
  • 2.2 700MHz auction
    
  • 2.3 Analysis – 2007 - 2008
    
  • 2.4 White Space Spectrum
    
• 3. WiFi (WLAN)
  
  • 3.1 WiFi statistics
    
  • 3.2 Major WiFi hotspot providers
    
  • 3.3 Municipal WiFi
    
    • 3.3.1 Overview
      
    • 3.3.2 Muni WiFi analysis – 2007 - 2008
      
  • 3.4 WiFi and cellular convergence
    
  • 3.5 WiFi standards and certification
    
• 4. WiMAX
  
  • 4.1 WiMAX market overview
    
  • 4.2 WiMAX Forum
    
  • 4.3 WiMAX and WiFi
    
  • 4.4 WiMAX versus competing 3G and 4G technology
    
    • 4.4.1 3G/HSDPA
      
    • 4.4.2 Long Term Evolution (LTE)
      
• 5. Satellite broadband
  
• 6. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Top 10 Wireless ISPs’ subscribers and communities served – 2007
• Table 2 – Public WiFi hotspots – top 10 countries and top 10 cities – 2008
• Table 3 – Number of hotspots in the top 10 US states – 2006; 2008
• Table 4 – Top seven US WiFi hotspot operators

• Exhibit 1 – Municipal WiFi case-study
• Exhibit 2 – IEEE WiFi standards – January 2008
• Exhibit 3 – Sprint Nextel’s and Clearwire’s WiMAX developments