BOSTON—The Yankee Group predicts that wireless infrastructure spending will increase from $99.4 billion in 2001 to a maximum of $120.2 billion in 2004 before declining to $114.6 billion in 2006, according to its new study, “Infrastructure Capex: How much will it cost, and which vendors will win.
The study also says that most of the spending will be on GSM, GPRS and W-CDMA networks.
“It is expected that the proportion of capex associated with infrastructure electronics will increase from approximately 53 percent of the total capex in 2001 to as much as 63 percent of the capex in 2005, as operators overlay 2.5G and 3G infrastructure on their existing networks,” said Yankee Group in a statement.
