The activities of major players like Sprint/Clearwire have greatly increased the momentum behind Mobile WiMAX, and with certified equipment on the horizon, many triallists round the world are set to move to full commercial deployment in 2008. In this session, the panel will discuss the major patterns of these roll-outs in terms of geography, business model and investment levels, and how the availability of systems in volume will affect deployments in future.

Canada is one of the leading WiMAX markets, with spectrum available and operators already offering WiMAX access to their subscribers. The panel will explore the Canadian WiMAX market and give the audience an update of the latest developments. The most prominent Canadian WiMAX operators will present their experience to date and their future plans, and discuss the opportunities and challenges of deploying WiMAX in Canada.

This session will address the specific market, and regulatory trends facing the broadband wireless industry in Brazil, Mexico and Latin America in general.
These countries represent great opportunities and challenges for WiMAX. The success of WiMAX in Brazil and Mexico will have a domino effect to neighboring countries

What is service providers real deployments in those countries? What are the lessons learned? What regulation is in place for BWA/WiMAX in those countries? What are the challenges? business? Technical? What are the particularities that need to be addressed by equipment vendors to be successful in those countries? What are the market forecasts in each country?
The session will include representatives from 1 service provider of each country

This session will address the specific market, and regulatory trends facing the broadband wireless industry in strategic emerging countries such as India and the Middle East.

India and the Middle East countries represent booming economies with plagued by a poor telecom infrastructure. The success of WiMAX will highly depend on the adoption of the technology in these countries in particular India with domino effect to neighboring countries.

The session will cover the following aspects:
What regulation is in place for BWA/WiMAX in those countries? Who are the likely service providers deploying WiMAX? In what timeframe? What are the challenges still ahead? What are the particularities that need to be addressed by equipment vendors to be successful in those countries? What are the market forecasts in each country?
The session will provide the results of Maravedis unique research in each of those four countries and answer those important questions and more!
The session will include representatives from various service providers in the region.

Europe has often been seen as the least promising region for WiMAX, because of the strength of the 3G vendors and operators, but despite this, there has been a strong wave of WiMAX adoption in the eastern half of the continent, and in the 3.5GHz band. Representatives from WiMAX operators will discuss the opportunities in Europe and how the market may develop, especially in light of the upcoming auctions of 2.5GHz spectrum for mobile broadband.