Mobile Experts predicts a shifting market for mobile communications basestations as new technologies drive growth in the number of transceivers deployed annually. According to the company, more than 14 million radio transceivers will be deployed in 2016, with more than half deployed for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) services.

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“Despite the rise of small cells, the macro infrastructure market will remain strong,” said Joe Madden, principal analyst at Mobile Experts. “In particular, rising data traffic demand will drive a need for ongoing investment in the macro layer, especially for 3G, TD-LTE (time-division LTE), and LTE-FDD (LTE-frequency division duplexing) systems.”

The number of transceivers per LTE basestation is higher than 2G or 3G systems, according to Madden. Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architectures are driving two to four transceivers per sector, and active antenna systems (AAS) will drive even higher numbers of radios, he adds.

Furthermore, according to Mobile Experts, everything is changing in the basestation. Power levels are changing. Frequency bands are fragmenting. Remote radio heads (RRHs) are growing. And, the OEM mix is changing rapidly. Details on these insights and more are available in the company’s report, Macrocell Transceiver Forecast, available at http://mobile-experts.net/product_info.php?cPath=2&products_id=33.

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