Posted on Monday, December 15th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Analyst Angle: The ‘emerging’ growth of GSM in a 3G world
RCR Wireless News
While the significant growth in data traffic is the main driver of growth in the W-CDMA market, the growth in voice traffic, a product of the rapidly growing subscriber base, is the main driver of growth in the GSM market. The total GSM subscriber base currently stands at three billion - four times the number of W-CDMA and CDMA subscribers combined. In the second quarter of this year, the GSM market had net subscriber additions of 546 million over the second quarter of 2007. This was more than three times the number of W-CDMA and CDMA net additions combined. To support this large incremental growth, the second largest number ever of GSM base stations was deployed, resulting in solid year-over-year revenue growth.
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