Published Date : 2025-Mar-20
The MulteFire Market is set to experience significant growth by 2025, driven by the increasing demand for private LTE and 5G networks, industrial IoT, and enterprise connectivity. MulteFire is a revolutionary technology that enables LTE-based wireless networks to operate in unlicensed and shared spectrum, offering high-speed, low-latency, and secure connectivity without requiring carrier involvement.
In this blog, we explore the top companies leading the multeFire market in 2025 and their key contributions to shaping the future of wireless communication.
More mobile operators are now looking at MulteFire networks as a new option for expanding connectivity. MulteFire is now an emerging international standard for broadband access in unlicensed or shared spectrum bands, which allows carriers and licensed service operators to extend their services into unlicensed spectrum without extra licenses. In contrast to Wi-Fi based on consumer-optimized technologies where numerous users within range share the same radio channel simultaneously, MulteFire market provides mobile network-grade capabilities like improved security, sophisticated performance features like adaptive modulation and forward error correction (FEC) coding technique to operate over variable links between transmitters and receiver, and mobility support and handovers.
MulteFire's increasing number of followers includes top worldwide carriers, chipset providers, and network equipment suppliers. Although unlicensed spectrum availability can allow service providers to provide broader coverage more readily, they cannot leverage carrier-grade features provided by licensed bands such as support for increased data rates, advanced security features and multimedia services. All these aspects are likely to aid the multeFire market growth.
The prime use of MuLTEFire is that it will enable small players to enter the market with 4G service where they otherwise would not have been able to afford LTE. It's a highly interesting move for multeFire market. The scope of MuLTEFire is still high as it will make cellular networks available on unlicensed airwaves, which are creating a new ecosystem for low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN). There are certain vital applications where LPWAN has the capability of providing adequate coverage across broad distances such that they are interoperable with each other and licensed cellular technology. In which, MuLTEFire business will likely gain an advantage.
LTE-M will be able to serve devices relying on low power wide area network (LPWAN) technologies such as LoRa and Sigfox. In the worldwide multeFire market, cellular carriers such as Verizon Wireless in America, KPN in Germany and Elisa in Finland are already rolling out these networks to cover rural regions where it would not be economically viable to extend their own broadband infrastructure using 3G or 4G LTE technology. Also, most houses fail to achieve 10Mbps speeds with wired broadband solutions, so MuLTEFire will assist in extending coverage to these areas.
The world multeFire market is seeing large demand with all these new low-power networks emerging and we believe the only way they will be able to function is by operating in unlicensed spectrum. "It's not only cellular carriers as they are carrying their own licenses into as many unlicensed bands as possible but even fixed broadband providers such as Comcast and Charter Communications" that wish to take their fixed-line services into unlicensed spectrum.
MulteFire is a new standard technology from 3GPP. MulteFire will allow for a highly flexible multiband IoT networking solution where operators have the option of offering their services. But there is one huge disadvantage of MulteFire when compared to LTE-M or NB-IoT that MulteFire lacks any licensing mechanism until now. What this implies is that any manufacturer of devices will be able to market a MulteFire module without paying any royalties, thus bringing down the product cost significantly. But this absence of an end-user license agreement (EULA) won't last forever, and we have at least three reasons why we think the multeFire market modules will become considerably more appealing in 2021:
Then, there is a MulteFire EULA that is being developed by the 3GPP. In contrast to LTE-M or NB-IoT, this agreement is yet to be concluded by the 3GPP, but it is likely to be completed in 2019's end. Either Qualcomm or MediaTek is expected to be the first licensee.
Secondly, Qualcomm and NTT DoCoMo are already co-marketing their MulteFire modules for IoT jointly in Japan. This implies that device makers can sell their products with MulteFire modules utilizing Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipsets and simply pay royalties to cater to customers in Japan. The Asia Pacific multeFire market has tremendous growth prospects.
Third, Google will roll out its Stadia video game streaming service in 2021. Stadia operates by linking players to Google's data center servers. Google's data centers are forecasted to be situated throughout the US, one of which is anticipated to be in Asia as well. The most interesting thing about Stadia is that it won't just operate on mobile (such as Project Stream), but also on PCs and even game consoles such as PlayStation or Xbox. Because Stadia has extremely low latency requirements, users anticipate Stadia game streaming to employ MulteFire. Stadia service demands a highly high-quality connection network, which both Qualcomm and MediaTek modules can certainly meet. The integration of Qualcomm chipsets with MediaTek MulteFire modules will enable device makers to rapidly develop low-cost Stadia-ready smartphones for gamers in Asia Pacific multeFire market where 5G networks have proven to be very expensive so far.
According to our analysis, 5G will finally shatter the high entry barrier for new device makers. So far, most mobile operators have been hesitant to let third parties sell devices with their SIM cards due to fears about network security, service quality and compatibility. Yet, the moment there are more mobile operators beginning to offer MulteFire licenses in 2021, we anticipate a deluge of new entrants into the market, competing on price and lowering prices for end-users.
The MulteFire technology is being developed to enable commercial wireless networks for various industry verticals. The applications are public safety, commercial telematics, and smart factory.
Industrial automation is gaining momentum as multefire market manufacturers shift towards "Industry 4.0" – the fourth industrial revolution facilitated by the convergence of cyber-physical systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT). These technologies bring together people, processes, data and things to create entirely new business capabilities. For instance, smart factories allow organizations to manufacture products with more flexibility and efficiency than ever; at the same time, operators are provided with unprecedented visibility into production performance. Applications are such as construction firms that need strong connections from on-site civil equipment such as asphalt pavers or backhoes to their headquarters office for fleet management; agricultural firms that depend on drones covering fields gathering real-time data needed to control water levels, pesticides, fertilizers, or simply making certain crops get watered evenly; and a mine worker's family who need to see what their loved one is exposed to all the way through the shift, with the freedom of calling them at any moment.
Industrial automation also encompasses intelligent facilities such as stadiums, hospitals, shopping malls, data centers, warehouses & distribution centers – all of which depend on wireless connectivity for asset management (RFID), security applications (CCTV), environmental control (HVAC), lighting control systems and so on.
As there is a growing need for the transmission of IoT data, high-quality connection is required, which can be offered by using various frequencies. Multi-frequency operation enables network operators to benefit from more than one frequency in a band. In carrier aggregation multefire market that is licensed in Canada and the US, Multi-Fire is a perfect fit because it makes it possible for LTE TDD & LTE FDD devices to support both licensed carriers in the countries without any additional hardware or firmware update. This will have vast influence on North America multefire market where wireless product integration is favored for its flexibility and capability to handle the broadest range of wireless technologies and combinations of spectrum. With the world market shifting towards 5G, multi-fire will enable modem manufacturers to design a single chip that can support various bands and multiple codes like unlicensed LTE bands for IoT applications like Smart City projects. Demand for multi-Frequency operation in North America and worldwide has been spurred by new handsets like Samsung S8/S8+ and Apple iPhone X that support FDD LTE Bands 1, 2, 3 ,4,5,7 & 12 and TDD LTE Bands 38 & 41 enabling the phone to use carrier aggregation on licensed as well as unlicensed frequencies.
As multi-fire allows for several wireless technologies to be included in a single product by modem manufacturers, demand for MultiFire is increasing rapidly, particularly in the Asia Pacific Global MulteFire market, since OEMs continue to look to eliminate traditional hardware pieces from smartphones to minimize further thickness and weight. The future smartphones will be thinner in design, more visually appealing, and have an improved user experience due to the removal of the necessity for extra hardware elements such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS antennas.
Industrial IoT deployments of today are primarily focused on public safety, commercial telematics and smart factory. Still, other applications may be made possible with LTE-based technologies such as MulteFire.
Remote Asset Management/Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) permit asset tracking employing real-time location services (RTLS) that enables companies to enhance asset management by gathering information on their assets for enhanced decision making. Vehicle Telematics permit users to monitor vehicle location, diagnostics/status per vehicle. This enables companies in the multeFire market to enhance fleet productivity (by minimizing downtime); enhance customer service (by optimizing transparency); and create extra revenue opportunities (via enhanced decision making).
Remote Asset Monitoring is generally carried out through wireless sensor networks that track environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity, liquids or gas levels, etc. that are placed in difficult-to-access places such as the interior of oil rigs or water towers. Organizations can easily use a wireless sensor node with MulteFire features to make these remote installations LTE available, which turns out to be one of the major drivers of the worldwide multeFire market.
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