A socio-economic analysis of WiMAX

fYear

2009

fDate

14-16 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The paper reports on an analysis of the WiMAX market for the purpose of positioning future contributions of WiMAX standards as part of the WiMAGIC project. The report examines nine key themes that are influencing current and future WiMAX deployments: WiMAX devices, confusion concerning WiMAX capabilities, spectrum allocation, WiMAX as 4G, WiMAX as an emerging country technology, political and regulatory factors, the economic crises, competition (WiMAX vs. LTE), and who are the WiMAX users. We conclude with a final section reviewing the potential market for any future development of WiMAX identifying a number of areas for future research.

Keywords

WiMax; telecommunication network management; telecommunication network planning; WiMAGIC project; WiMAX; economic crises; political factors; regulatory factors; socio-economic analysis; spectrum allocation; Broadband communication; Business; Communication industry; Emulation; Isolation technology; Market research; Mobile communication; Next generation networking; WiMAX; Wireless LAN; Broadband communication; mobile communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Application of Information and Communication Technologies, 2009. AICT 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Baku

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4739-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4740-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAICT.2009.5372564

Filename

5372564