Global Industry Overview: Telecommunications Equipment
Telecommunications hardware manufacturers build multiple components to sustain the world's communications systems. Serving both commercial and residential users, examples of industry products include transmission and switching equipment, telephones, and related devices for facilitating and managing voice and data communications. For information regarding providers of communication services using such equipment, see Telecommunications Services.
Industry Snapshot
The outlook for the telecommunications industry remained positive worldwide through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Demand for telecommunications equipment continued to register healthy gains as mobile cellular subscriptions reached 5.3 billion at the end of 2010. Ninety...