3G Wireless Infrastructure Sales Slowing

Europe : Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, today reported that the total mobility infrastructure market grew 13 percent in the second quarter of 2005 verses the same quarter a year ago.

Inset is Greg Collins, Director, Dell'Oro Group quoted below.

For the first half of 2005, growth in the WCDMA market slowed to 13 percent over the same period in 2004. This relatively small increase in the first half of 2005 contrasts with the stunning 44 percent increase for the WCDMA market in the second half of 2004 verses the same period in 2003.

"WCDMA infrastructure growth is being held back by lack of cost effective handsets, which is limiting subscriber uptake," said Greg Collins, Senior Director of Mobility Research at Dell'Oro Group. "However, as Cingular in the United States and service providers in China begin to introduce WCDMA-based services in 2006, equipment manufacturers should see a resurgence in WCDMA revenue growth."

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