With OTA provisioning, subscribers can activate their subscription in real time, without the assistance of the operator's customer service representative over the Wimax network.
New devices are detected at the time of activation and the required firmware can be automatically and remotely installed by the operator. The firmware and device configuration settings are pushed to the device to enable the services that the subscriber has selected.
Additional firmware updates can be automatically downloaded to the device at a later stage to reflect service changes or to support more advanced functionality.