• Revenue generating opportunities and challenges facing industry players
• Detailed Market Forecasts for Fixed Wireless split by households, business premises and nine geographical regions - by volume and value
• Strategies employed by the leading and most innovative player (market entry, positioning, partnerships etc.)
• Key findings of the ARC Broadband Access Industry Survey
• Appraisal, positioning and forecasts for Cable, DSL, Satellite and Fibre Access
• Analysis of the key factors driving the broadband content, applications and services market

This report is essential reading for:

• Fixed & Mobile Wireless Operators and Service Providers - currently deploying, or planning to deploy broadband wireless networks.
• DSL, Cable and Fibre Operators/Service Providers - who see broadband wireless as an ideal route to extending their cover and reach.
• Equipment and Component Vendors - who are targeting the broadband access market.

Seizing the opportunity
The demand for high-speed, always-on internet access has never been stronger across the world's business and consumer sectors. Fast and affordable alternatives are only just becoming available in many markets, with vast new opportunities awaiting the right vendors, operators and service providers.

The true potential of broadband wireless, and the reality of commercial deployment, is finally being recognised throughout the communications market. Although initially slow to take off, fixed wireless deployment has now begun to gain significant momentum, and is now well placed to take advantage of the abundant broadband subscriber opportunities.

The next few years will be critical to the future of the industry, and those players that make the right strategic moves now, will be well positioned to become the market leaders of tomorrow. Sound business planning and focussed marketing strategies will differentiate the most successful companies.

This report examines how the demand for bandwidth, driven by media-rich content and applications, will increasingly match the features and benefits afforded by fixed wireless technology. Further to this, the report offers a clear guide to the technology, and how it can be compared and positioned against competitive alternatives.

A close examination of the opportunities open to fixed wireless providers and vendors is presented, and supplemented with up to date reviews of specific leading players. The latest developments (including cable and satellite) are also provided as an essential reference source.

Broadband Access: Opportunities in Fixed wireless provides detailed forecasts for all the key access technologies, including Fixed Wireless, DSL, Cable, Satellite and Fibre Access deployment - broken don by business, household and the key geographical regions. Additional indepth analysis is provided for Fixed Wireless, including a key frequency band forecast by households and businesses, (SME, large premises and MTU), revenues and connections.

These forecasts and analysis are presented with the aim of assisting players to gain additional strategic insights, and a competitive edge in this most dynamic of markets.

Worldwide Household Internet Connections by Narrowband & Broadband - 1999-2005

Includes Exclusive Survey Results

Broadband Access: Opportunities in Fixed Wireless includes the results of the ARC Broadband Access Survey providing insight into:

• Estimates of future downstream and upstream access speed requirements for households and SMEs - 2000 - 2005
• Operators ranked requirements of vendors in 2001
• Operators main criteria when selecting vendors
• Main challenges facing the introduction of fixed wireless in Europe
• Strategic issues facing service providers - now and in five years
• Key revenue generating services - now and in five years