The worldwide mobile infrastructure market rose 1 percent year-on-year in Q3 to USD 11.3 billion driven by 3G W-CDMA capacity projects in EMEA and the end of LTE rollouts in China, according to a report by Infonetics. Global LTE revenue is up 9 percent year-on-year, totaling USD 6.1 billion. The overall mobile infrastructure market is down 1 percent in Q3 on a quarter-on-quarter basis, mainly dragged by Brazil, China, Japan, the Middle East and Russia, while LTE revenue was flat from the previous quarter.
Of the BRIC nations, India is the bright spot in the mobile infrastructure space, up every quarter since the beginning of 2015. North America is stable quarter-on-quarter, China is reaching the end of its massive LTE rollouts, LTE rollouts in Western and Central Europe are close to completion, and in the Middle East 3G upgrades are completed, the same report said.
