Mobile Backhaul Market Size & Share Analysis - Growth Trends & Forecasts (2024 - 2029)

Mobile Backhaul Industry Overview

The Mobile Backhaul Market is highly fragmented due to the presence of both global players and small and medium-sized enterprises. Many small players have expertise in certain functionalities, like system or network integration, but are not big enough to provide the entire spectrum of mobile backhaul solutions. The major players in the market are Fujitsu Limited, NEC Corporation, Ericsson Inc., Huawei Technologies, and Cisco Systems Inc., among others. Players in the market adopt strategies such as partnerships, mergers, innovations, investments, and acquisitions to enhance their offerings and gain sustainable competitive advantage.

In October 2022, the New South Wales (NSW) Telco Authority chose NEC Corporation to create the first phase of an advanced 5G innovation lab as part of a new strategic collaboration. The new 5G innovation lab would provide a space for the NSW Telco Authority and public safety agencies to experiment with new technologies, demonstrate interoperability, and push the capabilities of mobile technology in the context of Public Safety Mobile Broadband (PSMB) applications. NEC has long been a significant partner of the NSW Telco Authority, supplying wireless backhaul solutions for the NSW Public Safety Network (PSN) initiative under the ITS2573 NSW Government procurement panel.

In April 2022, Nokia announced the successful demonstration of a live microwave link using the D-Band spectrum (130-175 GHz), which provides much more bandwidth than other microwave bands and serves as an ultra-high-capacity extension for 5G backhaul and fronthaul in crowded metropolitan contexts. The research, which was carried out by Nokia using Nokia Bell Labs equipment, looked into how higher frequencies above 100 GHz may enable enormous channel bandwidths and carry up to 50 times more traffic than microwave bands commonly utilized for mobile network backhaul.