By Siân Morgan
Publication Date: 2025-12-10 13:30:00
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Plunge in China’s WLAN Revenue Pulls Down Worldwide Growth
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – December 10, 2025 – According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, a sharp contraction in China spending kept worldwide WLAN growth from hitting double-digits in 3Q 2025.
“Cisco was late to the Wi-Fi 7 party,” said Siân Morgan, Research Director at Dell’Oro Group. “But their aggressive pricing strategy has launched them into first place in terms of Wi-Fi 7 revenue, and this latest technology has ramped faster for Cisco than any prior version of Wi-Fi.”
“We saw strong WLAN spending in all regions outside China, where revenue contracted by double-digits,” added Morgan. “In 3Q 2025, the market expansion was led by the Middle East and Africa, but all macro regions except China have resumed a strong…
