Yankee Group Report Demonstrates Fixed Wireless Services
have Caught on as Viable Business Networking Solution 

Technology has grabbed the attention of emerging providers and
ISPs as a cost-effective solution strongly backed by local
governments in individual Asia-Pacific economies.

   A new Yankee Group report, "Fixed Wireless Services in Asia-Pacific: Networking Without Boundaries," shows that fixed wireless access (FWA) has emerged as a business networking solution after Asian incumbents were reluctant to unbundle the local loop for broadband competition. To counteract those delaying tactics, a number of competitive carriers and emerging broadband providers started examining various alternate broadband-capable access options.

    Customers define FWA as a networking solution that has fixed endpoints and shared use of frequency spectrum. Users are interested in next-generation access bandwidth in the 10-Mbps range. This enables FWA providers to distinguish themselves from Asian incumbents that generally offer solutions for up to 2 Mbps, and then 34 Mbps/E3 or 45 Mbps/T3.

    "Compared to fiber broadband solutions, fixed wireless broadband is easier to deploy, cost -effective and scalable," says report author Agatha Poon, Yankee Group Convergent Communications Asia-Pacific analyst. "Also, the boundless nature of wireless broadband has caught the attention of Asian regulators that have been finding new ways to eliminate the dominance of entrenched incumbents."

    Adds Poon, "Wireless broadband not only serves as a new delivery platform for the provision of bandwidth-intensive applications. More important, it presents a great opportunity for service providers to generate new revenues. Since SMEs and consumers have yet to express a preference for a variety of broadband access technologies, wireless broadband providers can compete on an equal footing with wireline-based broadband veterans."

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