WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.
Spending on LTE infrastructure equipment surpassed that of WiMAX for the first time in Q2 2011, according to a study by Infonetics Research.
Global spend on LTE equipment hit US$600 million during the period, while expenditure on WiMAX kit was slightly lower at US$500 million. Alcatel-Lucent edged out Ericsson in terms of LTE revenue share globally.
The company forecasts that spending on 4G infrastructure – both LTE and WiMAX – will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 46 per cent from 2010 and 2015.
The outlook does not appear all bleak for WiMAX though. "WiMAX continues its solid performance, finding growth from network expansions plus new niches in utility networks. Despite now being overtaken by LTE, as had been expected, UQ’s investment in [next-generation WiMAX technology] 802.16m shows there is an alternative 4G roadmap,” RIchard Webb, Infonetics Research's directing analyst for microwave and small cells, said.
The research found that sales of all mobile infrastructure kit was 25 percent higher in Q2 2011 than a year previously. This growth is still being led by GSM and W-CDMA technologies, but deployments of LTE and WiMAX are having an increasing impact.
"Although LTE and 4G continue to make the headlines, GSM was definitely the 2Q11 reality, with massive capacity upgrades in China and India. In addition, 2G and 3G network modernisation with multi-standard base transceiver stations (BTS) continues to be strong and will remain the main theme throughout the second half of 2011," said Stephane Teral, principal analyst for mobile infrastructure at Infonetics Research.
Looking to the future, Infonetics Research has forecast mobile infrastructure spending to total US$250 billion between 2011 and 2015.
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