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Published: March 2009
Pages: 26
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Research from: Ovum Research & Consultancy
Sector: Mobile Strategies

Introduction
2009 will be a critical year for mobile WiMAX. Vendors have had to adjust their strategies in a particularly challenging time, and available resources must be carefully allocated to market opportunities where ROI is more likely to quickly materialise.

Scope
Ovum's research has, for over 20 years been focused at the junction of the technical and commercial domains. Ovum's market reports provide strategic analysis of evolving trends in wholesale, enterprise, consumer, networking, devices, and components markets. Our analysis drills down into market ecosystems and segments, inflection points, competitive landscapes and trends, vendor leadership and best practice.

Highlights
One common theme among telcos is clear - they are all looking to provide an efficient next-generation network on which they can offer high-quality value-added services (VASs) to their customers. Telecoms operators are faced with a string of challenges from defending their core fixed revenues to generating growth from new wave services and international operations.

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Executive summary
In a nutshell
Ovum view
Reaching certification was the main achievement for mobile WiMAX in 2008
Update on mobile WiMAX certification
A key WiMAX milestone finally achieved
WiMAX Forum certified 16e products
Mobile WiMAX infrastructure vendor comparisons
High-level overview of vendors’ positioning regarding WiMAX, HSPA and LTE
Mobile WiMAX represents the biggest opportunity for WiMAX
Vendors are all employing end-to-end strategies, but with some differences
The mobile WiMAX top-five suppliers
Motorola
Mobile WiMAX is key to Motorola’s wireless infrastructure business
Motorola’s end-to-end strategy
Motorola’s WiMAX customers
Focus on Motorola’s relationship with the ‘new Clearwire’
Samsung
Mobile WiMAX is a chance for Samsung to expand its infrastructure business abroad
Samsung is the most vocal proponent of 16m
Samsung’s end-to-end strategy
Samsung’s mobile WiMAX customers
Alvarion
The specialist amongst the big NEPs
Building a strong ecosystem to better compete against larger NEPs
Tumultuous end to the collaboration with Nortel
Alvarion’s mobile WiMAX customers
Alcatel-Lucent
Mobile WiMAX to address FWA and nomadic uses only as LTE is favoured for mobile broadband
Alcatel-Lucent’s end-to-end strategy
Alcatel-Lucent’s mobile WiMAX customers
Huawei
Goal to become the number one player in mobile WiMAX by 2010
Huawei’s end-to-end strategy
Huawei’s WiMAX customers
The challengers
ZTE
Keeping pace with Huawei
ZTE’s mobile WiMAX end-to-end strategy
ZTE positions itself as a long-term player in Mobile WiMAX
Cisco
Mobile WiMAX to bring the Internet to emerging countries
Cisco entered the WiMAX radio business with Navini’s acquisition
NSN
NSN needs to go beyond its Sprint contract
Nortel, the first NEP to exit the 16e market
An exit in two steps
Why exit 16e now?




List of Tables
Table 1: WiMAX Forum certified 16e base stations for 2.5GHz (MP05 profile)
Table 2: Comparison of certified 16e base stations per band per vendor
Table 3: Overview of vendors’ positioning regarding WiMAX, HSPA and LTE
Table 4: Motorola wi4 WiMAX product portfolio
Table 5: List of Motorola’s mobile WiMAX references
Table 6: List of Samsung’s mobile WiMAX references
Table 7: List of Alvarion’s mobile WiMAX references
Table 8: List of Alcatel-Lucent’s mobile WiMAX references
Table 9: List of Huawei’s mobile WiMAX references
Table 10: List of ZTE’s mobile WiMAX references






List of Figures
Figure 1: Alvarion’s WiMAX revenues

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