WiMAX distributed in 118 countries worldwide with 4 million users

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Sept. 18 news the fourth world WiMAX Summit is held in Beijing today, Huawei, ZTE, Intel, Motorola and s a number of chip industry, device manufacturers and operators participated in the summit. According to the latest statistics released by the Forum that the current WiMAX subscribers has reached 4,000,000 all over the world.

At the summit meeting with the media at the global WiMAX Forum, said Ronald Resnick, as of August 2008, WiMAX has been in 118 countries to achieve commercial deployment, signed 300 commercial application of the contract, 400 million users access the Internet through WiMAX.

Ronald Resnick also to the United States, South Korea and India to describe the progress of WiMAX technology and its prospects for the global development strategy. He said that in 2012 is expected to WiMAX subscribers worldwide will reach 133 million, more than 200 countries and regions in the 538 operators to deploy.

He believes that the key objective of WiMAX is a next generation broadband wireless access, as the opening of the Intellectual Property Alliance Forum Certified mobile phone model and the model is relatively mature, compared to the LTE in order to speed the development of 3-5 years.

WiMAX in November last year, was approved by the ITU as 3G standards, and TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, CDMA2000 jointly build a 3G network era. However, in addition to WiMAX, the three other 3G technology in the direction towards LTE. Therefore, the formation of a WiMAX and LTE and the relative competitiveness of confrontation.

However, Huawei CDMA & WiMAX product line president Zhao Ming said, WiMAX and LTE are more complementary relationship. LTE is the evolution based on WiMAX.

To this, Ronald Resnick claimed: " the development of LTE is later three to five years than WiMAX."