3G rollouts in China drive big growth in WCDMA and CDMA base station deployments in 1Q09, says Dell'Oro Group
According to Dell'Oro Group, worldwide mobile infrastructure market revenues contracted 9% on year in the first quarter of 2009 despite a record number of 3G base station shipments. The GSM market experienced its largest on-year decline as mobile operators in China focused on 3G network deployments.
"The three China-based mobile operators plan to spend over US$20 billion in 2009 on rolling out the initial phases of their 3G deployments," stated Scott Siegler, senior analyst at Dell'Oro Group. "China Unicom's WCDMA deployment is shaping up to be the single largest 3G deployment in history and was the primary contributor to the record 100,000 Node B shipments in the quarter. With the CDMA market declining elsewhere around the world, China Telecom's spending resulted in the most CDMA base station shipments in over four years. As the two GSM operators, China Mobile and China Telecom focused their spending on the rapid deployment of their 3G networks, spending on their GSM networks significantly declined. We expect this spending to accelerate in the second half of the year," finished Siegler.
During the quarter, Huawei and ZTE experienced the greatest rate of growth, almost doubling their combined share of the total infrastructure market to over 20% compared to the same quarter in 2008.
"The three China-based mobile operators plan to spend over US$20 billion in 2009 on rolling out the initial phases of their 3G deployments," stated Scott Siegler, senior analyst at Dell'Oro Group. "China Unicom's WCDMA deployment is shaping up to be the single largest 3G deployment in history and was the primary contributor to the record 100,000 Node B shipments in the quarter. With the CDMA market declining elsewhere around the world, China Telecom's spending resulted in the most CDMA base station shipments in over four years. As the two GSM operators, China Mobile and China Telecom focused their spending on the rapid deployment of their 3G networks, spending on their GSM networks significantly declined. We expect this spending to accelerate in the second half of the year," finished Siegler.
During the quarter, Huawei and ZTE experienced the greatest rate of growth, almost doubling their combined share of the total infrastructure market to over 20% compared to the same quarter in 2008.
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