Last year appears to have been a turning point for the small cell market, when small cell revenues exceed $1 billion for the first time. The momentum is continuing in 2016.
According to analyst firm Mobile Experts, carrier small cell deployments grew 140% in 2015, including both indoor and outdoor units; the growth rate “will be even bigger in 2016,” Joe Madden, principal analyst for Mobile Experts, has written.
Mobile Experts expects enterprise small cell shipments to double this year, with a 270% spike in sales growth, and estimates that enterprise small cell shipments will be worth $4 billion annually by 2020. Transparency Market Research, meanwhile, predicts the global femtocell market to be worth $4.7 billion by 2019.
