LONDON-According to information gathered for a recent report, The Strategis Group estimated the west and east European land mobile radio (LMR) market at 7 million private mobile radio (PMR) users and 500,000 public access mobile radio (PAMR) subscribers at the end of 1996. The leading countries in the PMR segment-Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and Italy-accounted for two-thirds of Europe’s PMR user base. For PAMR, Germany, the United Kingdom and France accounted for three-quarters of overall demand at the end of 1996.
The Strategis Group projects that Trans European Trunked Radio (TETRA) will be implemented gradually as a means to deal with capacity constraints of PMR networks. Additionally, TETRA is expected to serve as a platform for newly licensed PAMR systems. The total number of LMR users is expected to increase gradually to 11 million by the year 2002, which will result in subscriber equipment cumulative sales valued at $4.1 billion. Strategis estimates that from 1997 to 2002, $850 million of the total value will be attributable to TETRA subscriber unit sales.
