April 4, 2008—A new study from ABI Research forecasts worldwide deployment revenues from in-building wireless systems to grow from $3.8 billion in 2007 to more than $15 billion in 2013.
Drivers for this tremendous growth include consumers’ growing dependence on wireless voice and messaging communications, as well as an increasingly competitive mobile operator environment. But underlying all demand drivers is a fundamental connectivity issue, says the report.
According to principal analyst Dan Shey, “The higher frequencies used by 3G technologies impose limits on wireless coverage inside buildings based on current cell site distributions. The business case is made for deployment of in-building wireless systems because mobile data services are capturing a greater share of subscribers’ mobile services spend.”
But every region and operator has a different set of network technologies, competitive conditions and mobile usage. Fortunately for the owners of in-building systems, which include businesses, operators and building owners, a range of solutions make in-building wireless systems economically viable. System configurations can include passive and active distributed antenna systems, multi-band repeaters and antennas, picocells, femtocells, coax, fiber and CAT-5 cabling.
The new report, In-Building Wireless: Connecting Networks and Service, can be purchased online.
It examines the critical demand drivers for in-building wireless systems, as well as forecasts and estimates of the impact they will have on different systems by region. The discussion outlines the advantages and limitations of each system, and profiles the companies that are providing market-leading equipment and services.
ABI Research is a leading market research firm focused on the impact of emerging technologies on global consumer and business markets.
