Globally, 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers will generate US$784 billion in service revenue by 2015, said  a latest report of UK’s consulting outfit Analysys Mason.  HSPA will support 88% of all wireless broadband consumers at the end of 2008, and its importance will continue. “Despite the increasing availability of LTE and WiMAX, HSPA and HSPA+ will still support 54% of wireless broadband users by the end of 2015,” said the report’s co-author Dr Mark Heath.

WiMAX will fail to achieve a significant share of the rapidly developing wireless broadband market, contributing only 2% of global revenue. “The vast majority of MNOs will not break ranks to WiMAX, but will upgrade to LTE,  resulting in over four times more LTE users by the end of 2015.” Read more.