KINGS PARK, N.Y.-Infrastructure vendors will benefit as hundreds of thousands of base stations will be deployed globally every year through the rest of the decade, according to a new report from Visant Strategies.
“Operators in developed markets will begin to bear the fruit of third-generation infrastructure investments beginning next year and will continue to build out those networks as they bring subscribers over from their existing networks,” said Larry Swasey, the Visant senior analyst who authored the study. “Emerging markets will complete the first swath of redundant and competitive national services near the end of the decade through the use of 2G and 2.5G air interfaces.”
Those factors bode well for infrastructure vendors, Swasey said, as the number of CDMA2000 and GSM/GPRS base stations will top 2.4 million by 2009, serving more than 2.1 billion consumers. Both EDGE and W-CDMA will continue to thrive, as well, he said.
