[12.07.2007]
Informa Telecoms & Media predicts a staggering
uptake of HSPA connections over the next 18 months. The analyst firm states
that there were 7.25 million HSPA subs at the end of Q107 and that this figure
will grow to over 50 million by the end of 2008.
Strong growth in North America as well as in the
advanced Asia-Pacific countries of Japan and Korea has helped to accelerate the
take-up of HSPA to reach 7.25 million subscribers on a global basis by the end
of March 2007, according to data from Informa Telecoms & Media's World
Cellular Information Service.
The take-up of HSPA is therefore proceeding at a
faster rate than initial WCDMA growth thanks to growing popularity of
HSPA-enabled data cards, USB modems and the availability of several attractive
consumer devices such as the Nokia N95.
Whereas it took almost three years before WCDMA
subscribers exceeded the seven million mark, HSPA subscribers have reached this
figure within the space of just 15 months since the launch of the first HSPA
networks in December 2005.
"HSPA is therefore well on track to surpass
the 20 million mark on a global basis by the end of 2007 as forecasted in
Informa's Future Mobile Broadband report. This figure is set to more than double
next year to reach 56.8 million by the end of 2008. By this time HSPA will
account for around 20.5 per cent of total global WCDMA subscribers, up from 6.2
per cent at the end of 1Q07," Thomas Wehmeier Senior Research Analyst,
Global Markets Portfolio, Informa Telecoms & Media told telecoms.com.
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