Year-End 2015: Global LTE Connections Reach Beyond the Billion MarkEscrito por Redacción TNI el 15/03/2016 a las 14:02:541597
5G Americas, the industry trade association and voice of 5G for the Americas, today announced mobile subscriber data for the end of year 2015 which included an industry milestone with LTE connections reaching over one billion worldwide according to data gathered by Ovum. North America greatly contributed to global LTE connections with 237 million of the 1.1 billion as of 4Q 2015. North America “It is no surprise that LTE has become the standard mobile technology for the North America region and continues to flourish as more consumers are adopting the technology year after year,” commented Chris Pearson, President of 5G Americas. “The rapid increase in LTE connections, not only in North America but worldwide, is leading the industry on the right track to the commercial standardized deployment of 5G in 2020 and beyond.”
Latin America “The world region that shined by year-end 2015 was Latin America with LTE connections growing by 304 percent from 2014 to 2015, making it the second highest growth rate after Central & Southern Asia,” stated Kristin Paulin, Senior Analyst at Ovum. “In 4Q alone, Latin America had the strongest LTE growth at 39 percent after 15 million net additions in the quarter. Brazil was by far the largest contributor to LTE growth in the region with more than 7 million net additions—that’s almost half of the entire region’s total LTE net additions in 4Q 2015.”
Global LTE & LTE-Advanced From year-end 2014 to 2015, Oceania & Asia Pacific added 343 million LTE connections, North America added 66 million and Western Europe added 64 million. Global LTE connections totaled a little over one billion with an annual growth of 107 percent. LTE is currently deployed on 480 networks in 157 countries. LTE-Advanced is also gaining momentum globally; currently 117 networks in 57 countries have deployed the technology, more than doubling from 54 networks in 35 countries at year-end 2014.
5G Americas maintains a current list of LTE and LTE-Advanced deployments in the Americas on its website. For more information and to view a variety of statistical charts on the 3GPP family of technologies, visit www.5gamericas.org. Subscriber and forecast data is from Ovum. |