According to a recently published report from In-Stat, even if the worldwide economical climate has been a harsh one lately, the market of base stations has been on the rise due to an increase in demand for smartphones, regular phones, and wireless broadband services. According to the research firm, the total number of newly deployed macro cellular base stations is expected to register a growth of around 10 percent during the ongoing year.

At the same time, the research firm's report also shows that the largest amount of new macro cellular base stations shipped is represented by WCDMA solutions. On a global scale, these base stations are expected to account for 50 percent of the total base station revenues. Moreover, the percentage is on the rise, In-Stat notes, forecasting that the WCDMA base station shipments will reach revenue in excess of 70 percent of the total revenues in the market by 2013, while LTE base stations will only account for 20 percent of the total revenue.

“WCDMA/HSPA base stations will be the work horses of wireless data networks,” says Allen Nogee, In-Stat analyst. “Many operators, worldwide, are in the process of rolling out, or enhancing, their current CDMA networks, including a very large rollout of CDMA by China Unicom. China Unicom was awarded the WCDMA contrac... (read more)