Dell’Oro Group Forecasts Steady Growth for Mobility Infrastructure Market through 2011

Mobile WiMax and WCDMA More than Offset Declines in CDMA and GSM

Redwood City, Calif. – January 31, 2007 – In a newly released report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for information about the telecommunications and networking industries, worldwide mobile infrastructure equipment revenues are projected to grow steadily over the next five years, with a slight acceleration in 2008 due to increased mobile WiMax revenues.

“We expect the mobile WiMax market to grow by a compounded annual growth rate exceeding of 50 percent through 2011,” commented Greg Collins, Vice President of Mobile Infrastructure research at Dell’Oro Group. “Despite this strong growth, we predict WiMax will account for less than 10 percent of the mobile infrastructure market in 2011 because of the lack of voice services available in the short term,” added Collins.

The report also indicates that the WCDMA market is expected to perform exceptionally well by 2011, capturing meaningful market share from rival technologies, GSM and CDMA. The CDMA market is projected to shrink as service providers in key growth regions—India, Brazil, and Korea—continue to migrate their subscriber bases to GSM or WCDMA-based services. GSM service providers are also expected to start migrating to WCDMA.

“While growth in WCDMA remains tepid in the short term, we remain confident in its longer-term growth and potential to slowly displace GSM, because of the large percentage of mobile service providers that have committed to WCDMA technology and the expectation of increased subscriber adoption as handset prices drop in the future,” said Collins.

About the Report

The Dell’Oro Group 5-Year Forecast Report offers a complete overview of the Mobility Infrastructure industry with tables covering manufacturers’ revenue, average selling prices, transceivers or RF carriers shipments, and unit shipments for base station controllers, base transceiver stations, and mobile switching centers for GSM/GPRS/EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA and Mobile WiMax. To purchase this report, call Karen Yang +1.650.622.9400 x222 or email Karen@DellOro.com.

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