Operators, market and subscribers are ready for WiMAX
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics dominates the worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) turf globally with almost 40% market share. It has joined the companies supporting Wimax standard technologies instead of long term evolution (LTE) and is holding discussions with Indian operators to launch the services immediately.
Both WiMAX and LTE are broadband wireless access (BWA) technologies. Samsung Electronics VP-global marketing group (telecommunication systems division) Hung Song spoke to FE’s Nikita Upadhyay about the Indian WiMAX potential, operators’ readiness and Samsung’s business interests inIndia. Source