Rush for 4G drives mobile telco spending
The race for 4G is pushing up global capital expenditure on mobile communications, according to new research. However, the US economy’s uncertain outlook in 2008 is prompting ABI Research to predict that North America’s mobile capital expenditure will remain flat this year. Advertisement Other regions will increase their capital expenditure commitments for new 2G/3G deployments or expansions, all-IP service discovery platform upgrades, soft-switch unified core systems and preparations for 4G.
