Fixed Wireless Access Industry Overview
The fixed wireless access market is fragmented due to the presence of significant solution providers across the globe who are incessantly working towards gaining more market traction. The companies are entering into strategic partnerships and alliances, raising funds to introduce new solutions, and improvising on the existing ones to increase market visibility. Some of the recent developments in the market are
In February 2023, Nokia and China United Network Communication Group Co. (CUC) announced today that they are expanding their collaboration by trialing a 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) solution based on Nokia's integrated Multi-Access Gateway in an existing network. This is the first test of its kind in the Chinese market. CUC will be able to grow network bandwidth and provide additional internet services to its consumers in the future by smoothly combining fixed and mobile networks.
In October 2022, Nokia declared that NBN had selected it to supply 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) mmWave Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) for NBN's fixed wireless network upgrade. The program would help deliver faster speeds to thousands of homes and businesses across regional, semi-rural, and remote Australia. In a world-first, the customer premise equipment (CPE) provided by Nokia supports high frequency 'mmWave' bands, capable of Gigabit speeds for premises within a 7 km radius of a radio base station.
Fixed Wireless Access Market Leaders
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Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
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Nokia Corporation
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AT&T, Inc.
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Verizon Communications, Inc.
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Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
- *Disclaimer: Major Players sorted in no particular order