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HSPA Drives Mobile Infrastructure Market Growth in 2008


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Steep Price Erosion Significantly Offsets Record Number of GSM and CDMA Base Station Shipments

Redwood City, Calif. - According to a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, the worldwide total mobile infrastructure market revenue grew 5 percent in 2008, driven by the nearly doubling and quadrupling of revenue of the WCDMA and WiMAX markets, respectively.

“The rapid expansion of HSPA networks worldwide beginning in the first quarter of the year was instrumental in driving the growth of the WCDMA market in 2008,” stated Scott Siegler, Senior Analyst of Mobile Infrastructure research at Dell’Oro Group. “The true broadband data rates of these upgraded networks, along with the doubling of the HSPA device ecosystem, including smartphones, laptops and mobile internet devices were the primary drivers of the WCDMA market’s ramp. The prevalence of flat rate data plans was even greater incentive for 2G subscribers to migrate to 3G subscribers and take advantage of these true mobile broadband networks. The WCDMA subscriber base increased by over 100 million during the year. More HSPA subscribers, with each subscriber accessing substantially more data, drove operators to significantly invest in expanding and upgrading the capacity of their HSPA Networks,” Siegler added.

The report also shows that despite 30 percent growth and a record number of base station deployments for the combined GSM and CDMA markets, higher than normal price erosion of over 25 percent, resulted in a 10 percent contraction in revenue for these markets.

About the Report

The Dell’Oro Group Mobility Infrastructure Quarterly Report offers complete, in-depth coverage of the market with tables covering manufacturers’ revenue, average selling prices, transceiver or RF carrier shipments, and unit shipments for base station controllers, base transceiver stations, and mobile switching centers for GSM/GPRS/EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA and WiMAX. To purchase this report, call Emily Kendall at +1.650.622.9400 x223 or email Emily@DellOro.com.

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