US: Clearwire unveils its outlook for its WiMAX network
By admin at 14 June, 2008, 11:24 am
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Clearwire, a joint venture in charge of developing a national WiMAX network in the USA reveals his expectation of subscribers.
The WiMAX network XOHM has almost disappeared even before it started its commercial phase, but the joint venture named Clearwire announced in May 2007 has given financial guarantees on the future of this technology to the USA.
In this new context, which combines Sprint, Intel, Google and cable operators, the company Clearwire has been able to present its projections for growth of subscribers to future WiMAX service at a conference of investors.
They are 1.3 million subscribers who are expected on the network by the end of 2009, and 4.6 million by the end of 2010. In the longer term, the company hopes to capture 31 million users in 2017, for revenue to the tune of 17.5 billion dollars, and average revenue per user (ARPU) of 49 dollars, which could climb to 62 dollars the emergence of new services.
The challenge of facing WiMAX LTE
Benjamin Wolf, CEO of Clearwire, said that the formation of the joint venture brings all the elements necessary for the success of the network XOHM long term, a view that was far from being shared by analysts earlier this year, Noting the increasing power of the future competing standard LTE (Long Term Evolution) from operators.
But actually, we must await the approval of regulatory authorities to endorse the creation of the joint venture. And it is only at this moment, which must take place later in the year that the commercial phase may actually begin.
At this time, Sprint will own 51% of the joint venture and the former Clearwire 27%, the rest being distributed to 22% in investment funds. This would definitely benefit from two years ahead of WiMAX on LTE to relocate permanently in the U.S. telecommunications market.
However, the firm ABI Research study underlines that LTE could include more than 30 million users from 2013, mainly on the side of the Asia-Pacific. Pending a possible rapprochement, but that would only much later, so it is rather a scenario antagonist between the two technologies that profile.
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