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First Responder and Public Safety LTE will Exceed US$5 Billion by 2020, Says ABI Research
In recent years, LTE (News - Alert) has emerged as a challenger to existing public
safety communication protocols. Continual refinements from 3GPP Releases
and commercial collaboration between TETRA and P25 vendors with LTE
vendors are turning First Responder and Public Safety LTE into a
reality. ABI Research (News - Alert) estimates the total number of public safety LTE
user subscriptions to reach 11 million worldwide by 2020, with a market
size of US$5.1 billion.
Due to stringent operability requirements, the public safety community
is generally risk averse. Legacy public safety protocols such as TETRA
and P25 maintain high desirability due to their stability and
performance consistency, while LTE vendors continue to improve its
mission-critical features. Since Release 10, 3GPP has incorporated
various enhancements to improve the mission-critical capabilities of
LTE. LTE-Relay extends network coverage for mission-critical and
disaster response, while LTE-Direct allows public safety devices to
establish direct point-to-point communication without the need of a
basestation. 3GPP Release 13 in early 2016 will standardize push-to-talk
and indoor positioning capability. These enhancements equip public
safety LTE to deliver mission-critical solutions and the broadband
capability of LTE also provides for third party innovations, such as
machine learning and machine type communications.
Collaborations between Motorola Soutions and Ericsson as well as Harris
and Nokia (News - Alert) Networks have demonstrated the potential of a single unified
broadband and narrowband communications solution. However, the
advancement of existing LTE networks is still crucial in the deployment
of a public safety LTE network. Therefore, ABI Research believes the
United States, United Kingdom, and South Korea will be the first three
markets to have a fully functional public safety LTE network by 2017.
More deployments will take place in emerging markets, such as Middle
East and other parts of Asia-Pacific, after 2017. "The lack of legacy
public safety communication networks allows these markets to deploy
First Responder and Public Safety LTE networks, with no issues of
interoperability. Emerging markets will eventually replace advanced
markets as the growth driver, especially with China joining the fray in
around 2021," says Lian Jye Su, Research Analyst, ABI Research.
These findings are from the Emergency Response Public LTE Access
report, which is a part of ABI Research's LTE
and 5G Market Research (https://www.abiresearch.com/market-research/service/4g/).
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