The WiMAX Forum® has announced its 2nd annual WiMAX Forum event in Singapore, the WiMAX Forum Congress Asia 09 to be held from April 28th- 29th, 2009. This year’s Congress Asia will be event more successful, with an impressive speaker line-up of more than 100 industry thought leaders including 29 operators. Part of WiMAX Forum’s series of global tradeshows, the event is the largest and most successful WiMAX event in the region with more than 4,000 high level representatives in attendance from the entire WiMAX ecosystem across Asia and throughout the globe.

The two-day WiMAX Forum Asia Congress is set to bring together some of the largest and most powerful Asian WiMAX players like UQ Communications, Yota, Korea Telecom, V Max Telecom as well as large global players like Clearwire. Some of the eminent speakers at this years’ event include, Takashi Tanaka, President UQ Communications Inc, Japan, Peter Yen, President, Tatung Infocomm Co. Ltd, Taiwan, Dennis Sverdlov, CEO, Yota, Russia, Andrew Gan, Regional Marketing Manager, WiMAX Business Unit, Fujitsu Micorelectronics Pacific Asia Ltd. and Raman Subbaiah, General Manager, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. They will be speaking on various aspects of WiMAX ecosystem and participants will be given a LIVE experience of a WiMAX network by operator Green Packet by allowing access to live Mobile WiMAX™ and Fixed WiMAX™ connectivity.

The event will provide the industry with an excellent opportunity to learn from the experiences of operators who have successfully deployed mobile broadband around the world.

According to WiMAX Forum research, of the 470 global WiMAX deployments more than 70 are from Asia-Pacific. These deployments already provide coverage to over 205 million people and continue to rapidly expand. The Asia telecom market is expected to constitute a major part of the global WiMAX market, with almost half of the new users to be added in India which explains the critical role India plays in the Asia region. The burgeoning Indian market is expected to illustrate the power of WiMAX technology with over 27.5 million WiMAX users estimated by 2012. WiMAX has already established itself in the 3.5 GHz band with deployments in every region. WiMAX is being deployed in the 2.5 GHz in Asian countries such as the Japan, Taiwan and Russia with new 2.5 GHz WiMAX spectrum allocations expected soon. WiMAX has been deployed in the 2.3 GHz in South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore with future deployments anticipated in Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia.

About the WiMAX Forum®
The WiMAX Forum® is an industry-led, not-for-profit organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based upon the harmonized IEEE 802.16e/ETSI HiperMAN standard. A WiMAX Forum goal is to accelerate the introduction of these systems into the marketplace. WiMAX Forum Certified products are interoperable and support broadband fixed, nomadic, portable and mobile services. Along these lines, the WiMAX Forum works closely with service providers and regulators to ensure that WiMAX Forum Certified systems meet customer and government requirements. Through the WiMAX Forum Congress Events Series of global trade shows and events, the WiMAX Forum is committed to furthering education, training and collaboration to expand the reach of the WiMAX ecosystem. For more information, visit the trade show link at www.wimaxforum.org.

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