BOSTON—A recent Yankee Group Report, “High-Frequency Fixed Wireless: More than Just LMDS,” finds that despite the disillusionment caused by slow growth in 2001, there is a market for high frequency, point-to-multipoint products. However, the market for these solutions is still emerging, and there are issues yet to be resolved by both vendors and carriers that use this technology.
The Yankee Group said customer premises equipment prices must decline to a cost point of $2,500 so that the average amount of CPE per base station can increase. This will allow carriers to serve more than twice as many customers from a single base station.
Vendors also must focus on the international market during the next five years. The current cost and reliability of high frequency, point-to-multipoint systems does not measure up to that of existing landline telecommunications infrastructure in the United States.
