BOSTON, United States—The Yankee Group predicted that wireless infrastructure spending will increase from US$99.4 billion in 2001 to a maximum of US$120.2 billion in 2004 before declining to US$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 said that most of the spending will be on GSM, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and wideband-CDMA (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.
