First responder terminals worth $3.6B in sales by 2013
November 19 2008 - 12:18 pm ET | RCR Wireless News
The first responder terminal market is expected to reach $3.6 billion by 2013 from about $1 billion last year, according to a new forecast from ABI Research.
Market growth is being driven by the standardization among agencies onto digital technologies like APCO/TIA Project 25 and ETSI TETRA.
North America is set to be the largest market long term for first responder terminals, said ABI.
“The public safety wireless communications market for technology and geographic location has solidified,” said Stuart Carlaw, vice president of ABI. “North America is dominated by P25, while the rest of the world seems set on the European-developed TETRA standard with isolated islands of P25 in the Asia-Pacific region and legacy TETRAPOL in France.
“First responder terminal vendors see the fragmented, but huge and less mature, US market as the greatest opportunity for the future, although it must be recognized that penetration into this market is difficult due to technology choice and to Motorola’s pre-eminent market position,” noted Carlaw.
