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As Operators launch their 4G networks and start rolling out new and innovative packages for subscribers who are building strong appetites for more data, vendors and other players in the supply chain are working out more advanced solutions to meet the need to manage the rapid increase in the amount of data that crosses every LTE network in the world today. Supporting these will be formulation of new strategies and plans by each player in the segment as they get ready to strenghten their competitiveness and devise better strategies to capitalize the growth in this sector. To this end, the 2013 LTE Strategies and Vendor Leadership: Global Service Provider Survey report by Infonetics Research, a leading market research firm, provides key insights on the growth of the LTE segment, the top players in the segment, the rollouts and various other topics including the LTE network drivers, challenges and service offerings. Interesting excerpts from the report are as follows: The industry is in the midst of a second wave of LTE rollouts, with a total 248 commercial LTE networks in 87 countries anticipated by the end of 2013 LTE-Advanced is gearing up for 4G prime time, with the 1st commercial deployment launched in June 2013 bySK Telecom Heterogeneous solutions comprising macrocells, microcells, picocells and metrocells are gaining momentum for both 3G and LTE networks Operator respondents rate Ericsson, Huawei and NSN as the top LTE equipment manufacturers, with Alcatel-Lucent close behind
“Installing the access leg of an LTE network or E-UTRAN is going smoothly for many of the operators we interviewed for our latest LTE study, though voice migration to LTE and LTE roaming have emerged as major issues in the core. So don’t expect a massive 2G/3G network shutdown anytime soon,” says Stéphane Téral, principal analyst for mobile infrastructure and carrier economics at Infonetics Research. Téral adds: “Meanwhile, ‘increasing ARPU’ was among the top LTE upgrade drivers in our 2012 LTE survey, but it fell back this year. The ARPU boost was short-lived, suggesting that mobile operators need to charge a premium to recoup the cost of their LTE network investment.”
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