Market research firm In-Stat (News - Alert) has a new report out showing that the demand for smartphones, regular phones, and wireless broadband services continues to drive the WCDMA base station market, despite a poor economy prevailing globally.
The firm’s report, “Global Five-Year Cellular Macro Station Forecast,” focuses on the worldwide market for cellular macro base stations. According to the report, the newly deployed macro cellular base stations will increase by more than 10 percent in 2009, while among all these base station shipments, WCDMA base station shipments will form the largest segment, making up approximately half of total base station revenue. Further, it says WCDMA will be contributing more than 70 percent to total base station revenue by the year 2013, while LTE (News - Alert) base stations will account for another 20 percent of the total.
In its recent research, In-Stat projects that total base station revenue during 2008-2013 will drop to a CAGR of about 3 percent. What’s more, the mix of base stations is changing in favor of smaller base stations and LTE base stations.
It also forecasts growth of GSM subscribers in Africa, India, China, and Latin and South America -- while it also says there will be no growth for GSM in areas that are transitioning to WCDMA.
TD-SCDMA base station technology was found to demonstrate the fastest growth; while it also emphasized that majority of the committed operators have LTE roll-outs scheduled for 2012 and 2013. Verizon has been deploying LTE with Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert) equipment in the US, as most of the company’s existing CDMA equipment has been supplied by Alcatel-Lucent.
In a press release, Allen Nogee, analyst at In-Stat, said WCDMA/HSPA base stations will be the work horses of wireless data networks, as many operators, worldwide, are in the process of rolling out, or enhancing, their current CDMA networks -- including a very large rollout of CDMA by China Unicom (News - Alert), which had been awarded the WCDMA contract to provide services in China. Nogee noted that WCDMA will gain the most subscribers, with CDMA2000 and TD-SCDMA taking the distant second and third positions.
In September, Skyworks Solutions (News - Alert), a provider of analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, had announced that Samsung is leveraging both quad-band GSM/EDGE and next-generation WCDMA front-end solutions to power a variety of new 3G smart phones including the Pixon12 -- the world's first 12 megapixel touch screen camera phone.
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Base Station Deployments Fueled by WCDMA: In-Stat
Source: TMCnet.com
Date: 12/22/2009
