J'son & Partners Consulting: state and development prospects and market potential of 3G networks

Company J'son & Partners Consulting presented the main results of the study "Status and prospects of development and market potential of 3G (HSPA and HSPA +) in Russia and in the world", noting that despite the rapid start technology 4G/LTE, the third generation mobile communication more at least a few years will remain the main source of income for mobile operators. Data rates on 3G, increase the penetration of smartphones and other devices that support this technology and the coverage of third generation networks will be the main driver of investment in such networks.

Russian operators will also continue to invest heavily in third-generation networks. Infrastructural development gap in 3G-networks "big three" mobile operators by the end of 2013 actually came to naught, and the competition will take place mainly in the field of marketing and sales, retention and increase its subscriber loyalty.

3G comes to the market and a new player - "Rostelecom". Total operator in Russia planned to have by the end of 2013 6-8 thousand base stations 3G, as of September 30, 2013 "Rostelecom" and its subsidiaries have established mobile operators 5250 3G base stations in 24 regions (22 regions networks are in commercial operation).

In general, 3G-coverage (percentage of the population living in the area covered by the networks 3G), Assessment J'son & Partners Consulting, at the end of 2012 exceeded 75%, while in 2010 the figure was about 65 %.

Important motivating factor for the development of "new» 3G-HSPA technology and DC HSPA + supports the rapid development of mobile internet access : when the traffic is growing very rapidly, consumers need a higher data rate. In the next four years will be the evolution of the standard HSPA +, is to improve and increase the data rate. Projected J'son & Partners Consulting, 2018 to third-generation technology will dominate in Russia with a share of about 78% in terms of subscribers. The share of revenue from mobile data 2G/3G networks have up to 80% of all revenues from the mobile internet access in Russia by the end of the forecast period.