The telecom market has grown multifold in recent years. Mobile and internet telephony has crossed the geographies and encompasses the whole globe. The way we communicate today is evolving and will improve with every passing day. One of the recent and popular technology is WiMax also known as (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a wireless based communication standard. The term "WiMAX" was given by the WiMAX Forum, which was formed in June 2001 to promote conformity and interoperability of the standard. WiMax works on same standards on which WiFi operates. Radio signal are used as mode of transmission in this technology.

WiMax Technology has many advantages such as.

 

Airspan Networks,  Cisco Systems, Electric Power Research Institute, GE Digital Energy, PureWave Networks and Rohde & Schwarz, Alvarion.

 

3G is a third Generation Mobile Telephony standard (Protocol) which is required to meet IMT-2000 specification. 3G technology is purely built for multimedia devices such as Smartphones for video chatting and high bandwidth uses. 3G is one of the fastest growing networks with data transfer capacity up to 3 Mb/sec. 

 

3G Industry Facts:

Source: RNCOS

AT&T, T-Mobile, Bell Mobility, Vodafone, Orange, Telephonica, China Mobile, Bharati Airtel, Tata DoCoMo, Next G