Private public safety LTE market worth $2 billion by 2020

ReportsnReports.com has released ‘The Public Safety LTE & Mobile Broadband Market: 2014-2020’. The report presents an in-depth assessment of the global public safety LTE market, besides considering the wider LMR and mobile broadband industries.

Public safety organisations worldwide recognise LTE as the de facto standard for mission-critical mobile broadband communications. With spectrum already allocated, public safety agencies in the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and the US have already begun to operate private LTE networks.

Driven by public safety demands, LTE products can now also operate in spectrum bands previously unthinkable, such as the 400 MHz band, which is widely available to public safety agencies worldwide. Moreover, demands for tactical and rapidly deployable broadband solutions have also led vendors to develop private LTE base station products in a variety of innovative form factors such as Cell-in-a-Box (CIAB) or airborne cells.

Research estimates that the global spending on private LTE infrastructure including base stations (eNodeBs), mobile core (EPC) and backhaul will account for $2 billion annually by the end of 2020. By the same time, the installed base of private public safety LTE eNodeBs will reach nearly 155,000 globally, following a CAGR of nearly 60% between 2014 and 2020, and will serve nearly 4 million private public safety LTE subscribers worldwide.

It was noted that the transition to LTE will be a complex technical change for the public safety communications industry and will present challenges in its own right, particularly in the context of global standardisation. Furthermore, spectrum, regulatory and budgetary issues in certain regions such as Europe will delay large-scale private deployments. Nonetheless, service prioritisation partnerships with commercial LTE network carriers will create an ecosystem for operating public safety devices over commercial LTE networks during this transition period.

Key findings include the following:

• As much as 15% of all public safety LTE investments will be military-centric tactical deployments by 2020.
• Commercial carriers and public safety MVNOs will pocket nearly $7 billion in public safety LTE service revenues by the end of 2020, following growth at a CAGR of 40% between 2014 and 2020.
• A large nationwide deployment such as FirstNet in the US can save up to 40% in TCO (total cost of ownership) over 10 years by opting for a public-private partnership rather than a private-only investment.
• Almost all major LMR industry players are leveraging partnerships with established LTE infrastructure vendors such as Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and NSN, to offer end-to-end LTE solutions.

The report can be found at http://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/276044-the-public-safety-lte-mobile-broadband-market-2014-2020.html.