Dell'Oro reports 10% of decline in China mobile infrastructure market in third quarter 09

According to the Dell'Oro Group's IIn report, the networking and telecommunications industries, mobile infrastructure market revenues declined 10 percent in the third quarter of year 2009 to $9 billion, due in large part to fewer 3G deployments in China during the quarter.

The report indicates that heavy spending by China Unicom and China Telecom is expected to resume in 2010, and will be a prime contributor to both the WCDMA and CDMA markets.

"The lack of 3G spending by China Unicom and China Telecom in the third quarter had two major consequences on the market," stated Scott Siegler, Senior Analyst of Mobile Infrastructure research at Dell'Oro Group. "First, each of the top five vendors experienced steep declines in base station shipments during the third quarter due to their slower sales to China. Second, the average selling price of wireless infrastructure equipment rose in the third quarter, because a greater percentage of equipment was sold in more developed countries, where prices are generally higher than in China," continued Siegler.