Global Macrocell Mobile Infrastructure Market Reached $10.3 billion in 2Q13

The recent 2nd quarter 2013 (2Q13) 2G, 3G, 4G Mobile Infrastructure and Subscribers report released by Infonetics Research, a market research and consulting firm specializing in the global communications markets, highlighted interesting trends and developments in the MacroCell Mobile Infrastructure Market. The excerpts from the report are as the following: 

The global macrocell 2G/3G/4G mobile infrastructure market totaled $10.3 billion in 2Q13, up 4% sequentially driven by LTE ramp-ups in North America, Brazil, and EMEA

Yet, modest 2G and 3G activity kept the mobile infrastructure market down 5% on a year-over-year basis (2Q13 from 2Q12)

Projects at Bouygues Telecom, Etisalat, Everything Everywhere, MTS, Mobily, Vodafone D2, Claro, and Vivo propelled Huawei past long-time #2 NSN to move behind king of the macro 2G/3G/4G radio Ericsson

Estimated at $3.3 billion in 2Q13, LTE revenue grew 17% quarter-over-quarter, and 119% year-over-year

Europe joined the LTE bandwagon in 2Q13, and is now the 3rd strongest LTE market behind North America and Brazil

LTE rollouts began in earnest at Russia’s MTS, MegaFon, and VimpelCom

200 commercial LTE networks are online as of July 2013, and Infonetics anticipates that 4G LTE subscribers could top 608 million by 2017

LTE-Advanced is gearing up for 4G prime time, with the 1st commercial deployment launched in June 2013 bySK Telecom

“LTE continues to ramp up at a fast pace with a shift away from Japan and Korea to EMEA, Brazil, and Russia. And China is joining in a big way with two-thirds of total spending this year earmarked for LTE and expected by year’s end. As a result, 2013 is shaping up to be a peak year for macrocell mobile deployments,”   notes Stéphane Téral, principal analyst for mobile infrastructure and carrier economics at Infonetics Research.