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News Release from: Informa Telecoms and Media
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 July 2006
Hardware shortage delays
mobile broadband take-up
The number of 3.5G mobile broadband subscribers worldwide will boom more than tenfold from 2.5 million in 2006 to more than 300 million in 2011
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but market growth in 2006-07 will be restrained by a lack of compelling devices, according to 'Future mobile broadband: HSPA, EV-DO, WiMAX and LTE', a new strategic report from Informa Telecoms and Media. 'A lack of compelling devices and content led to delayed launches and slow take-up of WCDMA and EV-DO services, and early HSDPA and EV-DO Revision A services are expected to suffer from the very same problems', says Malik Saadi, Principal Analyst at Informa Telecoms and Media and co-author of the Future Mobile Broadband Strategic Report.
Saadi notes that most HSDPA services are launching with only PC cards and notebooks, although a number of early handsets are also arriving.
'However it is striking that as of June no major vendor has unveiled plans for EV-DO Rev A handsets, although data cards are on the way'.
A lack of a wide range of compelling handsets will slow mass-market takeup of 3.5G mobile broadband services in 2006-07, but handsets will start to mature in 2008, leading to a sharp increase in 3.5G handset sales and subscribers in 2008-09.
By 2011 85% of 3.5G devices sold will be handsets, and the remaining 15% will be notebooks and PC cards.
3.5G mobile broadband subscribers are defined as subscribers using services based on HSDPA, HSUPA, EV-DO Revision A or EV-DO Revision B.
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