Cellular infrastructure contract awards are announced agreements between a cellular service provider and an equipment provider. They announce that a deal has been made and infrastructure equipment has been sold. While each one of these alone doesn't reflect much, by gathering all of these awards and comparing them with past award levels, one can see not only trends in the infrastructure industry, but also a forecast of things to come during the course of the next two or three years. Awards usually cover a span of a few years, which provides this insight.
In-Stat's 2005 Infrastructure Contract Awards Summary not only tracks all awards announced in 2005, it also compares this level of awards to past years, and contains breakdowns of awards by equipment manufacturer, awards by country, awards by value and awards by cellular technology type. When taken together, this information is one of the best, completely unbiased forecast tools used to look at the cellular infrastructure market. Combined with the 4-year summary and 6-month moving average chart of past awards, this report contains an indispensable amount of useful information for anyone tracking this dynamic industry.