The base station antenna is an increasingly complex and essential part of the mobile network, and that complexity is growing as networks evolve to 5G. Considering there will potentially be 850 million 5G subscribers by 2025, competition in the mobile cellular antenna arena is intense.
This competitive assessment ranks the ten most dominant and innovative mobile cellular antenna manufacturers in the world - ACE Technologies, Amphenol, Comba, CommScope, Huawei, Kathrein, MOBI, RFS, Rosenberger, and Tongyu – using ABI Research’s proven, unbiased innovation/implementation criteria framework. Each vendor was analyzed based on its multi-band, ultra-wideband, active, and advanced MIMO capabilities, essential intellectual property and R&D, overall market share, antenna geographical penetration, financial and organizational health, and antenna portfolio.