Telecom equipment and solutions providers Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent won more
of the emerging market for LTE wireless network technology in Q3 2011, helped
by their strong position in the United States.
Ericsson controlled 44 percent of the $647 million market in the third quarter,
while Alcatel’s share rose to 30 percent, according to Dell’Oro.
U.S. operators Verizon Wireless and AT&T are the first major operators to
build large LTE networks, with Ericsson and Alcatel supplying gear to both
carriers, according to Reuters.
Chinese telecom equipment major Huawei, a distant No 3 on the market, saw its
share declining to 8 percent, with Nokia Siemens Networks the fourth.
Equipment vendors are trying to win as many early LTE deals as possible to use
them as a reference for other deals.
Operators are expected to invest tens of billions of euros over coming years in
the new LTE networks which will offer faster data transfer and additional
capacity for their crammed airwaves.
Recently,
ABI Research said that provisioning 4G services and spectrum re-farming will
provide a welcome boost to the wireless infrastructure market. “4G
equipment spending on base stations will reach almost $3 billion in 2011 and
potentially $16.5 billion in 2016”, said Jake Saunders, VP for
forecasting, ABI Research.
In 2011 approximately 32,000 base stations will be upgraded and retrofitted to
support 4G services. Approximately 19,000 base stations will be deployed
onto new sites to help infill capacity and remove dead spots and poor coverage
zones for 4G enterprise and residential users. A considerable amount of that
equipment will be in the 2.5 GHz and related bands, but operators will be keen
to deploy into lower frequency bands.
By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com
