In sum – what you need to know
Private wireless surge – private wireless growth catches Dell’Oro by surprise, as private 4G/5G RAN sales jump by over 40% in 2024, reaching 3-5% of total RAN sales.
Top vendors and trends – Huawei, Nokia, and Ericsson dominate, with Huawei leading in China and total wide-area sales, Nokia leading otherwise and in total in campus-area sales.
Outlook and potential – the market will grow at 15-20% per year by 2029, with Dell’Oro revising its forecast upwards, and double its share of total RAN sales.
Who do you trust of all the private wireless bean counters? Well, RCR likes Dell’Oro Group, among a few others, which has just issued a press notice to say the market for private wireless networks is healthy, even strong. A new ‘forecast’ from the firm reckons 2024 was a boom year, in fact. Revenues from radio access network (RAN) sales to enterprises for private usage with private spectrum were “stronger than expected”, it said, growing by more than 40 percent in the period.
