Global Wireless Infrastructure Revenues Declined 22.4% YoY in Q1 2009

The global wireless BTS infrastructure market revenues declined by 22.4% for the first quarter of 2009 to US$9.8 billion compared with the first quarter of 2008, according to the latest report from EJL Wireless Research.

The figure includes shipments by wireless OEMs including Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel Networks, and ZTE - but not Huawei.

"While we expected a seasonally weak Q1, revenues were off by 32.5% from Q4 which is indicative of the continued economic uncertainty within the wireless sector," says founder and President Earl Lum. ZTE was the only company that did not decline substantially in Q1 from Q4 levels while Nortel was down 60.6% due to the continued uncertainty on the emergence of the company from bankruptcy protection."

"Given how weak Q1 was, it is possible that the wireless infrastructure market may drop 15-20% in revenues in 2009, even with 3G growth in China and India," says Lum. "As Huawei Technologies remains the only company not represented in this financial analysis, we believe that the results offer a realistic snapshot for the industry on how the overall market is progressing for 2009."

Posted to the site on 1st June 2009