In-Stat, a marketing analytics service that monitors the mobile, internet, and digital entertainment industries, has released new research called “Solar, Wind Power Enable ‘Green’ Cell Base Station Market; For Operators, it Pays to be Green.”
It concluded that by 2014, over 230,000 cellular base stations in developing countries would be operated by solar or wind-powered technology with the number of off-grid base stations poised to grow at 30% each year.
The research, “Green Base Stations: Renewable Energy Becomes a Reality in Cellular Infrastructure” (#IN0904369GW), covers the market for cellular base station technology in the developing world. It includes:
• Forecasts of deployed solar- and wind-powered base stations through 2014.
• Analysis of green base station technology including costs and benefits.
• Recent green base station technology developments by Huawei, NEC, Nokia Siemens, Ericsson, and Alcatel-Lucent.