BOSTON – At the end of the year there will be 875 active wireless operators worldwide, growing to 937 by the end of next year, according to The Yankee Group’s report, “Cellular/PCS Competitive Licensing Assessment and Global Forecast.”
This increase is helping to fuel the upsurge of global wireless subscribers from a projected 469 million at the end of the year, to 1.26 billion in 2005, the report said.
“Growth also will shift,” said Crispin Vicars, director of the company’s global wireless program and principal author of the report. “Developing markets will account for 22 percent of global net additions in 1999, and will grow to 75 percent in 2005.”
The report also said third-generation wireless technology will begin to have a meaningful impact by 2003.
