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Femtocell market to show 83.6% CAGR, says In-Stat
Peter Clarke
7/12/2010 7:22 AM EDT
LONDON – Some 31.8 million femtocell basestations will ship in 2014 while the CAGR of the market value of those femtocell shipments is set to be 83.6 percent for the period 2009 to 2014, according to market research company In-Stat.
That puts the annual market for femtocells at above 3 million units in 2010 but In-Stat did not explicitly reveal a forecast on this. The faster In-Stat thinks the unit price for femtocells will decline the higher its unit number for 2010 should be. If there was no price decline the units would be 2.8 million in 2010.
Meanwhile the market for microcell basestations will increase at a slower CAGR of 14.2 percent and the worldwide carrier-installed picocell CAGR is projected to be 378 percent by In-Stat, over the same period.
The demand for femtocells is driven by 4G deployment with operators installing LTE and WiMax basestations in existing 3G locations because it's a quick and relatively inexpensive strategy that will let them get broad coverage quickly.
"A new class of basestation, the compact basestation, will enable pico- and micro basestations to be smaller, cheaper and more power-efficient than ever before," said Allen Nogee, an analyst with In-Stat, in a statement. "Compact devices, such as indoor picocells and microcells, have been around for years, but are finding different roles. Others, like enterprise femtocells and outdoor metropolitan picocells, are a new class of basestation only possible in the last year because of developing semiconductors from companies like Freescale, Qualcomm, Percello, Design Art Networks, and Picochip."
Related links and articles:
www.qualcomm.com
www.freescale.com
www.percello.com
www.designartnetworks.com
www.picochip.com
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Warren
7/12/2010 1:30 PM EDT
Femtocell growth looked to be viewed as a bright spot and seems to be getting brighter. In March iSuppli suggested that femtocell growth this year would be "explosive," estimating 1.9 million units shipped in 2010. Now, just over 4 months later In-Stat suggests [it seems] that 2010 shipments will be around 3 million units. Not bad.
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Luis Sanchez
7/12/2010 4:38 PM EDT
Imagine now you'll be able to set the Cell phone coverage in your home by getting one of such femto-cells and the signal arriving to you through cable or DSL. This will make business change from triple-play (phone/cable/internet) to 4th-play(phone/mobile/cable/internet).
I suppose you'll be able to select the carrier or we might get different companies partner and provide the package.
Perhaps with this the coverage of a provider will become even international in the boarders range? I mean... a guaranteed coverage in the transnational offices. mmm another driver use!
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