BANGALORE (WiMAX Day). According to a new report from Maravedis Research, entitled “India Broadband Wireless and WiMAX Market Analysis and Forecasts 2006-2012,” there will be 13 million WiMAX subscribers in India by 2012. The report, which was co-authored by Tonse Telecom, examines the explosive growth in the India telecoms market and predicts a similar trend for broadband wireless services. In a press release issued by Marvedis, Sridhar T Pai, co-author of the report and CEO of Tonse Telecom said “There is huge potential for broadband wireless Internet and voice-over-IP services in India because there are still more than 600,000 villages with no basic communications services.” One challenge in growing the market will be spectrum licenses. “However, shortage of spectrum is a serious obstacle for massive adoption of broadband wireless and WiMAX in India. For WiMAX to prosper in India, license holders will need at least 20MHz of spectrum while they currently hold 12MHz or less. 20MHz is a minimum to support wide scale deployments and hence a profitable business case” added Sridhar.