According to foreign media reports, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli, the global wireless infrastructure equipment spending is expected to increase by 7.7% in 2011, from 40.1 billion US dollars in 2010 to 43.2 billion US dollars. The global wireless infrastructure equipment market grew by 3.8% in 2010 and fell by 7.2% in the economic downturn in 2009.

This year will be the peak of growth. Wireless infrastructure spending will grow at the fastest rate at least until 2015.

Many operators in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, and South Korea will take prudent steps in 2011 to focus on purchasing the currently dominant 3G/3.5G technology devices in order to expand the life cycle of their investments.

As operators in developed countries expand the deployment of 4G technologies in the coming years, an increasing portion of their total investment will be spent on next-generation technologies to support mobile wireless access at very fast data transmission speeds.

By 2013, 4G networks will account for the largest part of the wireless infrastructure market.

In most developing countries, operators will spend about the same amount of infrastructure equipment this year as they did in 2010. Another exception is that Chinese wireless operators will slow capital spending. The construction of most of the 3G networks in China has been completed. Moreover, China's three major telecom providers have announced plans to reduce spending in 2011.