LTE driving mobile infra market growth

SINGAPORE: The global mobile infrastructure market expanded 10 per cent to $46.8 billion last year, due in large part to a surge in LTE network spending.

LTE revenue jumped 69 per cent in 2014, with China Mobile’s massive TD-LTE deployment – more than 700,000 base stations – driving much of that growth, according to data from Infonetics, which is now part of IHS.

Mobile World Live reports Stéphane Téral, principal analyst for mobile infrastructure at Infonetics saying: “We have consistently said that LTE was supposed to pull the entire mobile infrastructure market out of the funk, and so far it has."