WiMAX Deployments and Consumer Electronics Opportunities
1:30 - Tuesday, September 25 Introduction
Adlane Fellah, President and CEO, Maravedis

The WiMAX Deployments, IPR and Consumer Electronics workshop is a unique opportunity to gain premium insights on these important topics. You will learn:

  • Deployments: This session will provide a reality check of BWA/WiMAX deployments and best practices worldwide including ARPU, subscriber count and applications driving WiMAX
  • Intellectual Property Rights: This session provides results of research into IPR ownership positions, value, trade and standards group policies, court rulings, current litigation, etc
  • Consumer Electronics opportunities and risks for WiMAX.



2:00 - Tuesday, September 25 WiMAX Operator Services and Key Metrics Analysis
Adlane Fellah, President and CEO, Maravedis
  • About 300,000 subscribers were using WiMAX-certified technology in Q1 2007
  • The WiMAX subscriber base grew 85% between Q1 2006 and Q1 2007
  • The split by subscriber type was 58% residential and 42% business
  • APAC accounted for 38% of deployments, Europe 33%, North America 17%, and CALA 13% 

Hear some of the most important key findings by the leading WiMAX research firm. Maravedis will present some of the key findings of its premium WiMAXCounts Operator Tracking Service, which covers over 130 WiMAX operators across 43 countries and is adding 20 operators per month.

During this session Adlane Fellah, President of Maravedis Inc., will provide a reality check of BWA/WiMAX deployments and best practices worldwide. In particular, this session will review the following:

  • What services and applications are driving the adoption of broadband wireless for residential and business customers?
  • What are the regional differences?
  • What is the ARPU for residential and business users by region and market segment?
  • What service revenues are WIMAX operators are able to generate and what is the trend?
  • How many subscribers are adopting WiMAX and at what pace?
  • Learn about the latest Q2 2007 WiMAX statistics
  • And much more!  



2:30 - Tuesday, September 25 Comparing 3G & WiMAX Spectrum In 100 Nations
Cintia Garza, Senior Analyst, Maravedis

Providing unique insight into WiMAX spectrum economics for both 3G and WiMAX around the world, a Senior Analyst at Maravedis Research will present the results of the latest research comparing spectrum cost, number of licenses, scope of licenses, duration of licenses, historical and future trends in spectrum allocation and market activity around the spectrum in each region.

The session will also feature a review of updates on key aspects of regulation in the IMT 2000 bands.




3:30 - Tuesday, September 25 Opportunities and Risks for Embedding WiMAX into Consumer Electronics
Robert Syputa, Senior Analyst, Maravedis
Praduman Jain , Director, 4G WiMAX Mobile Broadband, Xohm, A Sprint Nextel Business Unit

Topics to cover include

  • Opportunities that WiMAX enables for Consumer Electronics manufacturers and network operators
  • Risks associated with developing WiMAX-embedded devices 
  • The classes of Consumer Electronics products and services that will have the greatest impact from anytime, anywhere Internet access 
  • Roadmap for device introduction

As popular consumer electronics (CE) categories continue to penetrate, many devices inexplicably do not yet support connection to the Internet. Digital devices such as portable audio and video players rely on a personal computer with a high-speed Internet connection. Consumer applications such as television, radio, voice communications, and socializing are increasingly popular Internet applications typified by online services such as Joost, Live365, Podshow, Skype, Second Life, Blogger, and MySpace.  Consumers are looking for more ways to partake in these experiences.  

The widespread availability of broadband Internet access has made the Internet a larger part of how consumers access media. Consumers are looking for ways to remain connected and get access to their multimedia content anytime and anywhere. One such broadband wireless technology that has the potential to overcome this is WiMAX. The combination of wireless Internet access anytime, anywhere for the mass of unconnected consumer electronics devices brings new opportunities for convenience and real-time immersion in the digital world.
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4:15 - Tuesday, September 25 Impact of Intellectual Property Rights into Suppliers & Operators Bottom Line
Robert Syputa, Senior Analyst, Maravedis
Gary Koerper, Vice President, Platform Planning & Systems Architecture, Mobile Devices business, Motorola, Inc.
Paul Zeineddin, Intellectual Property Counsel, Samsung Electronics
  • How is Qualcomm Positioned in WiMAX & LTE IPR?
  • Risk Analysis of Trade Bans for WiMAX Products
  • How Much Does use of WiMAX Chips Extinguish IPR Claims
  • IPR Landscape for 802.16m/j IMT-Advanced 4G
  • IPR Royalty Estimates for WiMAX Systems and Devices
  • Patent Filings Show the Trends of Wireless Developments

Intellectual property rights affect pricing and risks for current and future 3G, WiMAX and LTE network deployments.  This sessions provides results of research into IPR ownership positions, value, trade and standards group policies, court rulings, current litigation, and trade sanctions and analysis of estimates for royalty rates and risks.

During the  presentation, Robert Syputa, Senior Analyst, Maravedis, presents findings from his recent report WiMAX/LTE 4G Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy & Market Analysis, 1st Edition, Release 2.

Key Findings:

  • WiMAX & LTE Patents cover diverse and overlapping fields of technology
  • Over 400 individuals, institutions and companies hold patents
  • Qualcomm does hold few patents essential to WiMAX
  • Qualcomm does not hold a commanding position in WiMAX or LTE IPR
  • IPR battles may be fought more over use of extended technologies
  • IT, Networking, entertainment media and other IPR comes into play
  • IPR royalties will be lower for WiMAX & LTE than for 3G
  • How Policy changes and court rulings effect patent filings, claims, and lawsuits.



5:00 - Tuesday, September 25 PTP Radio Market Trends
Earl Lum, President, EJL Wireless Research

During this session Earl Lum, President of EJL Wireless Research will discuss trends for licensed point to point radios from 5-90GHz. This session will cover the following:

  • High level market trends and industry consolidation coupled with new market players
  • What is happening with Gigabit data rate radios and beyond?
  • How quickly is Ethernet penetrating the global market vs. T1/E1?
  • Which applications are driving deployments of PTP radios?
  • WiMAX Backhaul: Impact on PTP radio market

The PTP radio market has been the forgotten network element in the wireless market, yet without this critical technology, much of today’s telecommunication networks would not exist. The PTP radio market has evolved considerably over the past ten years and continues to break new barriers regarding price, data rates, frequencies and shipment volumes. With the emergence of WiMAX and other types of broadband wireless access networks, PTP radios continue to play a critical role in network connectivity for backhauling base station traffic. We believe that licensed frequency band PTP radios are best suited for this requirement, not other WiMAX base stations or unlicensed PTP radios. Demand for WiMAX network deployments will add to the overall PTP radio demand over the next several years.