The European communications battery market has enormous potential for development and is currently well-established. Although lead-acid batteries are still dominant, the major players in the market have realized that lithium batteries have great potential for growth, and have begun to provide lithium-ion batteries and other conventional batteries. From the demand side, the progress in communications technology throughout Europe has stimulated demand for batteries. Batteries have an irreplaceable role in the communications industry. They support efficient and continuous information transmission and avoid or reduce downtime. Batteries are widely used at various nodes in the communications industry, covering the construction and maintenance of network infrastructure, network operations, user support and services, and customer premises equipment. Among them, the first three phases require special custom batteries: Infrastructural and network operations often use 48V high-energy batteries for back-up use, while user-supported and service devices use small batteries of 24V or 12V.
According to Frost & Sullivan, the size of the European communications battery market in 2012 will exceed 600 million U.S. dollars, and it will maintain a compound growth rate of nearly 8% over the next five years, and over 900 million U.S. dollars by 2017. Lead-acid battery is the mainstream communication battery in the current market, accounting for about 75% of the European market in 2012. With the development of the communications industry and battery technology in the future, by 2017, lead-acid batteries will still maintain their leading position, but the proportion will drop below 70%; on the contrary, the proportion of lithium batteries and new batteries will increase significantly.
The development of the European communications battery market is driven by many factors. First, the development of wireless communications, especially 4G networks, directly promotes the demand for energy-efficient batteries. The use of European mobile phone networks is increasing day by day. Western European countries are shifting to LTE (4G networks), and wireless communications infrastructure will face large-scale upgrades and changes in the next four years. Both the support equipment and the transmission base station to which the upgrade is applied require the power to be turned on, including the direct power supply and the backup power supply. Second, the development of the communications industry in Central and Eastern Europe has boosted the demand for batteries. The coverage of 3G networks in Central and Eastern Europe continues to expand. As of 2012, nearly 50% of the population in Central and Eastern European countries begin to use 3G networks, and this proportion will increase at a faster rate. Again, the use of hybrid transmission base stations has boosted battery demand. In order to reduce the carbon emissions of transmission base stations, hybrid transmission base stations are increasingly used in Europe. These systems use renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy, as well as traditional energy sources such as diesel generator sets. At the same time, in order to ensure connectivity throughout the European continent, telecom service providers have also built hybrid base stations that have advantages over traditional base stations in remote areas.
At the same time, the European communications battery market is also hampered by many factors. Here are two important barriers. On the one hand, the vicious competition caused by fierce competition has hindered the rapid growth of the market scale. The communications battery market is relatively fragmented and highly competitive. Competition has led to fierce price wars and regional competition. This situation exists in both the lead-acid battery and lithium-ion battery segments, and it is expected that this impediment will increase in the next five years. On the other hand, the uncertain macroeconomic conditions have affected market development. The market for communications batteries depends to a large extent on the investment in telecommunication infrastructure, and the capital requirements for this investment are often high. In times of economic downturn, telecommunications companies often do not invest heavily in infrastructure. When the economy is good, the communications battery market has grown rapidly with the development of infrastructure.
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