17th May , 2004

West Technology Research Solutions, LLC ("WTRS"), a market research firm focusing solely on emerging wireless technologies, today announced the availability of their just released, expanded Comprehensive Wireless Component Market Report, that provides a comprehensive review of wireless components spanning WAN technologies and protocols to PANs and Sensors. It compares and explains the relationships between technologies and protocols including UWB, Bluetooth, 802.15.4, ZigBee, 3G, 4G, WiMAX, 802.11a through g, and 802.20.

"WiMAX is seen by many as an indicator and also a driver in the market for VoIP applications. We are now at the intersection of wireless rapid data transfer and communication, realizing the final link, the Golden Spike, the saxum medium, the Key Stone: voice as data, Voice over Internet Protocol, VoIP. In the near future, invariably and inevitably, VoIP will replace switched telephony, i.e. it will eliminate and replace a complete stratum of our infrastructure that has served us so well for over one hundred years: the telephone. To be frank about this, we simply will no longer have need of it," said Kirsten West, one of the principals of WTRS. "Now that the significance of VoIP and its threat to telecommunications is becoming clear, the genie is out of the bottle, and the proverbial horse has left the barn. The FCC wants to keep the decision in the market place, that sphere of the survival of the fittest. Such an outcome would give the advantage to cable operators, the likes of AT&T, but also the `little guy', the average person looking to reduce and finally eliminate the barriers of regulations and fees. The losers would be the telecommunication market and industry and that incredibly layered maze of service providers and hangers-on: federal, state, local taxes, fees, and their bureaucratic infrastructure, attached like remoras to the mouth and underside of a shark."

West estimates that, given a 4% global GDP growth rate, annual shipments for WiMAX chipsets will exceed $2.2 billion in 2008.
The Comprehensive Wireless Component Market Report and Analysis provides sales volume, unit shipments, and average selling price by area network (WAN, MAN, LAN, PAN, and Sensors) as well as by the protocols and technologies within each area network from 2004 through 2009. In addition, it provides technology driver & shift analysis, analysis of technologies and standard protocols, summary and analysis of parent activity for each area network, economic indicator and geographic analysis, and general industry analysis. This 115-page report has 81 tables and 62 graphs.

About West Technology Research Solutions, LLC
West Technology Research Solutions, LLC (d.b.a. WTRS), is a market research and consulting company focused solely on new and emerging wireless technologies. WTRS's unique approach generates market forecasts using macro- economic methodologies that provide historically more accurate forecasts. Areas of expertise include wireless technologies, macroeconomic forecasting, and semiconductor technology. Services include comprehensive market research reports, concise market briefings, targeted industry assessments, monthly wireless technology newsletters, custom research and consulting, and custom channel marketing & sales program development.