Mobile WiMAX Market Continued to Ramp in Late 2008, According to Dell`Oro Group

Economic Downturn to Impede Time to Market Advantage Over LTE
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
According to a recently published report by Dell`Oro Group, the trusted source
for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries,
the worldwide mobile WiMAX infrastructure revenues nearly quadrupled in the
third quarter of 2008 (the most recent quarter with available market
information) over the third quarter of 2007.

"With LTE still a couple of years away, WiMAX has, in fact, become the first
next generation technology with commercial service," commented Scott Siegler,
Senior Analyst of Mobile Infrastructure research at Dell`Oro Group. "Mobile
WiMAX revenues were very strong in the third quarter of last year, and we
anticipate revenue for the fourth quarter to set another record. However, as we
look into 2009, we expect the WiMAX market to be hit rather hard by the economic
downturn. Building out brand new networks from scratch requires tens, if not
hundreds, of millions of dollars of capital. Compounding the tightening in the
credit markets, the increasing cost of capital and the decrease in demand for
broadband data as consumer spending weakens, we anticipate many network
buildouts will be put on hold or delayed into 2010. With initial LTE rollouts
coming in the 2010 to 2011 timeframe, these delays will shorten the time to
market advantage WiMAX currently has over LTE," Siegler continued.

The report also shows that the top four Mobile WiMAX vendors in the quarter -
Samsung, Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent and Alvarion - represented nearly 90 percent
of the total market.

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for base station controllers, base transceiver stations, and mobile switching
centers for GSM/GPRS/EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA and WiMAX. To purchase this report, call
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