REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Mobility infrastructure revenues involving GSM/GPRS/EDGE, TDMA, CDMA and all variants of wideband CDMA dropped 16 percent to $28.8 billion in 2002 compared to 2001, according to Dell’Oro Group.
The market, however, rose 15 percent in the fourth quarter over the preceding quarter, the report said, adding that it expects growth in 2004.
“Looking forward, we expect that mature technologies will continue to be under both price pressure and capital spending cuts by network operators, and that the market will decline by nearly 10 percent in 2003,” said Greg Collins, director at Dell’Oro. “Whilst we forecast that W-CDMA infrastructure market will grow to nearly $4 billion in 2003, these gains will be offset by further revenue declines in the GSM- and CDMA-based infrastructure.”
