10 March, 2010

Technology Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (Wimax)) which is a technology broadband wireless access (broadband wireless access or BWA) with high-speed access and wide-reaching predicted to grow more slowly in Indonesia.

"WIMAX not have the mobility to provide broadband connectivity to remote villages in Indonesia," said Senior Director, Services, GSM Association (GSMA), Jaikishan Rajaraman in his press conference in Jakarta, Monday.

He added, if compared with competitors such as 3G/HSPA technology, WIMAX is not yet able to offer Mobile Broadband connection which provides solutions to reach remote, remote islands, because they still continue to play in a more specific range and a larger role as a supplementary course.

According to him, until now, only HSPA technology that can reach into any area and have a real mobility through a variety of devices available today.

"Furthermore, WiMAX is better known simply as a substitute for fixed line broadband and is unable to offer true mobility," he said.

According to Ovum, a leading industry analysts, WiMAX will only control less than 5 percent of fixed access connection 1.5bn and Mobile Broadband in the market of developing countries in 2014.

"The penetration of WiMAX has been very slow according to analyst firm Maravedis, there are about 200 WiMAX networks, and about 200 more networks that are still in trial period, in 135 countries globally and only serve 4.73 million subscribers," he said.

When compared with competitors that HSPA has more than 200 million HSPA connections with the growth rate of more than 9 million per month, around the world, the Wimax has so far behind, he said.

Currently there are only about 120 WiMAX devices have now been certified or far behind compared with more than 1,800 for the HSPA.

"Ecosystem HSPA enables the creation of large economies of scale and also because of tight competition, so there are many choices for consumers and businesses," he said.

WiMAX itself is an evolution of previous BWA technology with features that are more interesting that can provide high-speed data and is a technology with open standards.

Wimax is not a proprietary technology with data speeds up to 70 MBps, so claims can be applied for last mile broadband connections, or backhaul.

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