WiMAX equipment market to reach $20 billion by 2010

Wireless communications is likely to continue to dominate the telecommunications sector in 2007. One of the technologies that will take a step forward this year is WiMAX, the market for which is expected to reach $20 billion by 2010. WiMAX is supposed to be the long-term solution for broadband wireless communications and, at a later stage, also mobile communications. Almost everyone engaged in the telecommunications sector can sense WiMAX’s impending arrival. Equipment and technology providers are optimistic about its rapid implementation, despite the alternatives for broadband wireless communications that have also begun to surface.