Ericsson, ahead of Huawei, leads WCDMA/LTE RAN market with 38% share in 2013, says Dell’Oro Group

Ericsson is leading the combined WCDMA/LTE RAN revenues with 38 percent share in 2013, said Dell’Oro Group. It is well ahead of Huawei.

Against Ericsson’s 38 percent share, Huawei, NSN, and Alcatel-Lucent accounted for 24 percent, 17 percent, and 10 percent of combined WCDMA/LTE RAN revenues in 2013 respectively.

ZTE recorded the largest quarter-over-quarter LTE revenue share gains.

TD-LTE RAN market grew in the fourth quarter 2013, offsetting declining RAN technologies (GSM, WCDMA, CDMA). TD-LTE RAN revenues exceeded $1 billion accounting for more than one third of total FDD/TDD LTE revenues during the fourth quarter 2013.

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“The initial large scale TD-LTE rollouts in China were the largest contributor to both quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year growth in the overall RAN market,” said Stefan Pongratz, RAN and Small Cell analyst with Dell’Oro Group.

The report said the total RAN market is expected to grow at a low single-digit rate for a second consecutive year in 2014, as growth in China offsets declining RAN revenues in North America.

With China Mobile officially upgrading its network to TD-LTE and issuing tender for 207,000 base stations, 2013 is set to become a peak year for LTE macro base station deployments.

In 2013, ABI Research forecasts that the worldwide LTE installed base will grow over 130 percent year-on-year with the China Mobile deployment consuming the majority of that increase. The Asia-Pacific region becomes the largest market for LTE followed by North America and Western Europe with the regional installed base growing 4X from 2012.

Earlier, ABI Research said LTE base station shipments in Asia-Pacific are set to grow over 3X in 2013. LTE macro RAN spending is also set to more than double as LTE expenditures rise to reach almost 50 percent of RAN spending, with Huawei, ZTE, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Solutions, and Networks all set to benefit.

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