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Mobile broadband is expected to become the dominant broadband platform worldwide in 2011. It will represent about a half of total mobile service revenues in 2012, making it one of the largest and most strategically important segments of the mobile industry. According to Juniper Research, the mobile-broadband subscribers will number 1.2 billion by 2012, or equivalent to nearly one in three mobile subscribers worldwide. Informa projects that the mobile broadband will generate more than $400 billion in operator service revenues worldwide by 2012.
In 2007 there were more than 200 commercial mobile broadband networks worldwide with more than 50 million subscribers using different mobile, portable and fixed devices. Currently, EV-DO (Evolution, Data Only), as an evolution of the CDMA2000, is an alternative third generation (3G) standard considered to have the most subscribers globally by the end of 2007. However, it is expected to be surpassed by WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) in the next 5 years. By that time, 3G penetration will reach over 50% and WCDMA is expected to completely dominate EV-DO worldwide.
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