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Strategy Analytics, in its new report “Broadband Beyond the Cities: WiMAX in Emerging Markets – Asia Pacific” predicts that consumer WiMAX subscriptions in the developing countries of Asia will grow from a few thousand now to almost 27 million by 2013, with the second-tier cities and the rural areas contributing for the strongest growth.
Subscriptions in villages and small towns are forecast to grow at almost 300% per year, three times the rate of major cities. Government policies aimed at closing the rural-urban “digital divide” are one reason for this rapid growth, but historic lack of broadband alternatives is at least as strong a factor.
Clearly, the real WiMAX opportunity is outside of large cities. Packet One, a WiMAX provider in Malaysia, appears to be following such a strategy.
Its first deployments were in Kuala Lumpur, but it has moved rapidly to launch in Johor and Penang, two less densely populated states outside the capital region.

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