Maravedis: WiMAX ended first quarter with 17.25m subs

The global subscriber base for WiMAX and LTE reached 17.25 million and 320,000 respectively at the end of March 2011, according to quarterly figures from Maravedis. Maravedis said the WiMAX subscriber increase represents a 32.7 percent jump quarter-over-quarter, from 13 million reported at the end of the fourth quarter 2010. The firm is expecting that 59 FDD-LTE and three TD-LTE networks will be running worldwide by the end of 2011. Article