LONDON-Frost & Sullivan has predicted the network operators sector of the European radio paging market will grow at a higher rate than the hardware sector.
Revenues for the radio pager hardware market were $1.47 billion last year, while network operator revenues were $1.24 billion, according to the report. However, Frost & Sullivan predicted operator revenues would grow at a rate of 30 percent per year to $8.25 billion, while hardware revenues will stay about the same.
The network operators were analyzed in terms of wide-area business paging systems, wide-area consumer paging systems and wide-area international business paging systems.
The hardware market was broken down into three areas: on-site paging, wide-area business paging and wide-area consumer paging. The study noted during 1995, 17.4 percent of all shipments in the European market were on-site products, 33.2 percent were wide-area business paging products and 49.4 percent were consumer paging products.
Frost & Sullivan predicted consumer pagers will account for nearly 83 percent of shipments by 2002, while wide-area business pagers will account for only 13.8 percent and the on-site paging market only 4 percent. Germany and France account for 40 percent of all shipments of radio pagers in Europe. The two countries account for 25 percent of revenues.
