
Asia Pacific and Latin America Drive Growth of Worldwide Mobile Infrastructure Market
Nokia Siemens’ Regional Mix Helps it Regain Lost Market Share
Redwood City, Calif. – November 20, 2007 –
Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries,
reported today that the worldwide mobile infrastructure market grew 4 percent in the third quarter compared to the
same period last year. A combined 38 percent year-over-year revenue growth in Asia Pacific and Latin America helped
boost the market and offset the significant double digit declines in the North America and EMEA regions. Intense vendor
competition in Asia Pacific and Latin America not only resulted in revenue growth for those regions, but also considerable
price declines.
“GSM was hit particularly hard by price erosion resulting from intense vendor competition in developing regions,”
commented Scott Siegler, Analyst of Mobility Infrastructure research at Dell’Oro Group. “Competition is fiercer when
vendors try to win new footprint buildouts, in contrast to upgrading networks already using their equipment. For example,
GSM base station shipments increased almost 40 percent year-over-year, while the pricing pressures resulted in only a 7
percent corresponding increase in revenue,” Siegler added.
Nokia Siemens, with a regional mix heavily weighted in Asia Pacific and Latin America, grew its share of GSM and
worldwide infrastructure market revenues almost 5 percentage points in the third quarter compared to the year ago quarter.
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