Asia-Pacific to drive global WiMAX market

NEW YORK, USA: World Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) has caught eyeballs of Internet users who see it as an effective wireless broadband alternative to stay ahead of their competitors.

Since it provides reliable, secure and high quality broadband access for mobile Internet users, WiMAX is a better-performing and less-expensive alternative to many existing technologies (Like DSL, Wi-Fi).

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According to RNCOS', an industry research firm, recent report "Global WiMAX Market Analysis", the global WiMAX user base is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 85 percent during 2010-2012.

We have done an extensive research on factors that will infuse 85 percent growth in the WiMAX market. The report has segmented the global WiMAX industry into major geographical markets such as the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, with an objective to clearly define key trends and forces that have led growth in a particular region.

Among all the regions, our report identifies that the Asia-Pacific region will register the highest growth rate of WiMAX users over the forecast period.

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Asia-Pacific will lead the global WiMAX industry but the growth will not be equal in all the regional countries. Therefore, we have separately covered countries of this region - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India, China, Malaysia and Singapore - in order to identify which of these countries will have critical role in the region's WiMAX market by 2012.