Feb. 22, 2006

-Mobile expansion in emerging regions such as Latin America, Asia, and Africa and continued growth in data services throughout the world will allow infrastructure vendors to make great strides over the next years, according to a new Visant Strategies report.

 

"The movement of almost the entire world to wireless voice alone would bode well for infrastructure vendors during the oncoming years, but mobile application use as well as downloading of music and video content should also prove very beneficial to the mobile industry," said Larry Swasey of Visant Strategies, the author of the report.

 "Much of the data consumption in industrialized nations will be driven by the role I/P networks and the seamless applications meant for such are beginning to play in most of our lives."

According to the report, "World Mobile Infrastructure 2006," both EDGE and WCDMA are already rolled out in hundreds of systems worldwide and use of the two air-interfaces will continue to grow through 2010 while CDMA2000 will also have its global presence expand during this decade. GSM/GPRS will flourish in emerging markets, the report finds, as hundreds of operators in lower-tier markets utilize the air interface. "There is room for everyone. There will be well over 3 million base stations deployed by 2010," Swasey said, "serving nearly 2.8 billion individual users which will amount to about 3.3 billion wireless accounts."