Samsung leads in deployments of LTE base
stations in Asia-Pacific in 2011
In-Stat reports the big seven players in the Asia Pacific
LTE Macro Base Station market - Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson,
Huawei, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks, Samsung, and ZTE -
comprise 94% of the market. In-Stat estimates that the dominant
LTE infrastructure equipment provider changes annually.
In 2009, NEC was the dominant provider by controlling the
majority of the NTT. In 2010, Ericsson was the dominant
player with deployments that spread across many countries
in the region. New NPD In-Stat (ww.in-stat.com) research
projects Samsung will be the dominant Asia Pacific LTE infrastructure
provider in 2011, with over one-fourth of all LTE macro
base station deployments in the Asia Pacific region.
Samsung is projected to finish 2011 with over 10,000 LTE
base station deployments across the Asia Pacific region.
Unlike Ericsson, which has broad support across many operators
in the region, Samsung's deployments are highly concentrated
in South Korea with a few operators such as LG Uplus, KT,
and SK Telecom.
"It is important to note that the market is far from
static," says Chris Kissel, Analyst. "Alcatel-Lucent,
Huawei, and ZTE will make strong gains in the region. By
2015, projections indicate that Huawei will lead the Asian
region with the most LTE base station deployments. However,
this is not yet certain as 17% of projected deployments
are undecided as the infrastructure vendor of choice."
Recent research found the following:
In 2015, Ericsson, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, and ZTE will
each have at least 10% of newly deployed LTE macro base
station shipments.
By 2015, there will be over one billion LTE POPs in Asia
Pacific countries. China, India, Indonesia, and Japan lead
the region in LTE POPs.
In 2010, there were four vendors with double-digit share
in the Asia Pacific market for LTE EPC/router/gateway equipment:
Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Huawei, and Ericsson. Alcatel-Lucent
clearly dominated with one third of the deployments. While
Alcatel-Lucent is projected to maintain a leadership position,
its dominance will weaken significantly.
From 2009 to 2015, the Asia Pacific LTE packet backhaul
equipment investment by operator will account for over US$
5 billion in revenue. Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, and
Huawei will account for at least 57% of the total spending.
