European Carriers Capex to Climb 6%
April 25th, 2005 Posted in Main Page
Telco equipment vendors looking for good news will be buoyed to hear spending by European ILECs, CLECs and wireless service providers are expected to rise 9% this year, according to Infonetics Research. There will be aggressive spending on access aggregation equipment, IP/MPLS routers and voice equipment. While 9% may not seem like a big increase, it's large - relatively speaking - given the low-single digit growth and negative growth seen from 2001 to 2003. Infonetics said that European SPs are now spending 13% of revenue on capex, and this ratio will continue through 2005.
