Top 10 LTE infrastructure providers in Q4 2011

By
Telecom Lead Team: Ericsson is leading the LTE infrastructure market with 24.8
percent in Q4 2011.

Its
nearest competitor Nokia Siemens Networks has 13.1 percent market share.

The
size of LTE infrastructure segment in Q4 was $2.9 billion, according to Signals
and Systems Telecom.

(Please
see the chart at the end of the article)

LTE subscriptions currently comprise
only 0.1 percent of the market will significantly grow over the next 5 years,
eventually representing more than 8 percent of the market in 2016. Presently,
U.S operator Verizon Wireless and Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo are leading the
LTE market with market shares of 63 percent and 22 percent respectively, driven
by their early adoption of LTE technology.

Recently,
Signals
and Systems Telecom announced that incumbent 2G/3G operators such as Verzion
Wireless will start seeing profitable LTE revenues in 5 to 7 years after LTE
service launch. Verizon Wireless, in particular, will witness the start of its
CAPEX recovery in 2018, from large scale CAPEX investments on its LTE footprint
which are expected to reach 22 Billion USD.

LTE Infrastructure Vendor Market Share

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