Clean Telecoms Market Data

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2Q 2009

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MD-CTEL-101

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This Excel package provides a roundup of mobile network and mobile device energy, recycling and lifecycle management. Mobile handset manufacturers are working to reduce the environmental footprint their products leave during the manufacturing process and throughout their lifecycles. Regulatory pressures and corporate responsibility mandates are forcing the issue on one level, and on another, voluntary initiatives by some vendors are leading to more “eco-friendly" handset models and programs. The impact will be seen in the volume of handsets that come back through recycling programs, and in the amount of e-waste the industry leaves behind.

This analysis examines the mechanisms being put in place by carriers and network infrastructure OEMs to reduce power consumption, ranging from network optimization to hardware integration, power amplifier efficiency, and software-based dynamic asset dimensioning. The report also considers the opportunity to integrate renewable energy sources into the primary power sources for cell sites, focusing on solar, wind, and hybrid solutions combining renewable cells, grid-based electricity, diesel generation, and battery banks.