Telecoms 2G, 3G, 4G capex to decline significantly by 2019, says Infonetics Research

According to Infonetics Research, worldwide telecom operators? 2G, 3G and long term evolution (LTE) 4G capex is expected to decline from $47 billion in 2014 to $27 billion in 2019, as macrocell mobile deployments reach saturation.

Further, the research firm states that in 2014, global mobile infrastructure revenue witnessed a growth of 10 per cent to reach $46.8 billion. The growth in global mobile infrastructure market was primarily driven by large scale time division duplex LTE deployment by China Mobile. As of January 2015, China Mobile has rolled out 700,000 eNodeB units and plans to add another 300,000 over the next few months.