3G Networks To Enjoy Widespread Deployment

3G Networks To Enjoy Widespread Deployment

Despite a 22% decline in spending in 2002, the demand for wireless and mobile network infrastructure remains strong, driven by the continued interest in mobile solutions among corporate users and consumers.

Inset is the author of this new report, Richard Dean, Program Director at IDC.

IDC expects annual spending on wireless and mobile network infrastructure to grow from $38.3 billion in 2002 to nearly $49 billion in 2007. Although the idea of 3G mobile networks has been under attack over the past year, 3G networks will enjoy widespread deployment over the coming years.

"The essential rationale for deployment of 3G networks -- gaining spectrum
efficiencies, easing network capacity constraints, lowering operating costs,
and expanding revenue opportunities through provisioning of data services --
remains intact," said Shiv K. Bakhshi, Ph.D., research manager for the
Wireless and Mobile Network Infrastructure program.
The rising popularity of MMS and picture messaging as well as the
proliferation of public WLANs and hotspots will serve to legitimize the
culture of data consumption in a mobile environment, and spur deployment of
network infrastructure, Bakhshi added.

While wireless data services will continue to be the focal point of
attention, traditional voice services will attract a fair share of network
infrastructure spending in both developed and developing markets. In developed
economies, voice-related spending will be driven by the increasing salience of
Quality of Service issues related to voice offerings; in developing economies,
it will be driven by the massive pent-up demand for voice connectivity. The
so-called 2.5 mobile networks will enjoy a longer shelf life than originally
argued by infrastructure suppliers.

IDC's recently released study, Worldwide Wireless and Mobile Network
Infrastructure Forecast and Analysis, 2002-2007 (IDC #28702), forecasts the
wireless and mobile cellular infrastructure market for the period 2003-2007.
The study breaks out the network infrastructure spending by air-interface
standards, geography and mobile generation.

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