Mobile Infrastructure LTE Revenues to Reach $8 Billion by 2015, According to New Forecast Report by Dell'Oro Group

Macro Base Stations to Drive LTE

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Jul 28, 2011, 09:00 ET

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a newly published report by Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, the mobile infrastructure LTE equipment market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 81% over the next 5 years, and reach $8 billion by 2015. Dell'Oro Group forecasts picocell revenues will reach 9% of total LTE eNode B revenues during the same period.

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"Based on recent conversations with leading wireless operators, we have slightly raised our picocell forecast," said Stefan Pongratz, Analyst at Dell'Oro Group. "In the past year, we have seen that operators have shifted from thinking and talking about small cells, to conducting actual trials on picocells. More operators are now focused on investigating and trialing best solutions and approaches to complement their macro networks so they could increase capacity and performance in high-utilization areas. While we believe the macro LTE network will carry the majority of the traffic through 2015, we believe vendors will start recognizing significant pico eNode B revenues in the outer years of the forecast period," added Pongratz.

The report also shows that WCDMA revenues are expected to drive the industry in the forecast period and represent more than 70% of all the revenues in 2015. The overall mobile infrastructure market is expected to grow at a 4% CAGR between 2010 and 2015.

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The Dell'Oro Group Mobility 5-Year Forecast Report offers a complete overview of the Mobility Infrastructure industry with tables covering manufacturers' revenue, average selling prices, transceivers or RF carriers shipments, and unit shipments for base station controllers, base transceiver stations, and mobile switching centers for GSM/GPRS/EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, Mobile WiMAX, and LTE. To purchase this report, please contact Emily Kendall, call +1.650.622.9400 x223 or email [email protected].

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