Though the installed base of 4G and 3G small cells will continue to be dominant in 2021, 5G begins to be significant in 2019, analysts at TrendForce predict.
But there is great diversity in the small cell deployments, with consumer, private enterprise and public network coverage all being important drivers of activity.
It always is difficult to distinguish between overall small cell deployments and deployments of service provider small cells. Small cells include a range of devices from in-home consumer units to in-office repeaters to private venue deployments, as well as mobile service provider cells used to bolster 4G or coming 5G capacity.
But it is important to keep some perspective. Crown Castle, for example, expects small cells to generate new leasing activity of approximately $75 million in 2019. That is 35 percent higher than the $55 million the company expects to book in 2018, but provides a benchmark.
Crown Castle’s pipeline of contracted small cell nodes to be constructed over the next 18 to 24 months continues to grow, and currently stands at an all-time high of approximately 35,000, which is up 40 percent from 2017 levels.
The point is that growth is about to accelerate.
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