LTE to Reach 100 Million Subscriptions Faster Than Any Previous Mobile Standard, Finds Pyramid
Research
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 20 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
The number of Long Term Evolution (LTE) subscriptions worldwide will grow at a CAGR of 404 percent
from 2010 to 2014, a pace faster than any previous mobile standard including 3G, according to a new report
from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications
LTE's Five-Year Global Forecast: Poised to Grow Faster than 3G identifies the main technical and business
drivers, as well as the challenges for the LTE platform, and analyzes its market opportunity in comparison with
earlier mobile technologies in their first few years of commercialization. The 19-page report provides Pyramid
Research's five-year outlook on LTE adoption, highlighting the largest LTE markets, and comparing adoption
rates in emerging and developed markets. It also examines the LTE-related products, demos, and
announcements of six of the largest vendors worldwide, including an analysis of how they compare with one
another in terms of time to market and customer wins. Download an excerpt of this report here:
For the first time, most of the major players, operators, and vendors alike, are behind the same mobile
standard, notes Daniel Locke, analyst at Pyramid Research and author of the report. "By using LTE's more
efficient and cost-effective flat IP architecture, mobile operators can transfer the savings to end users in the
form of lower prices for access, faster data rates, and higher traffic allowances for a wider adoption of
mobile data services," he says. "To date, 27 mobile operators worldwide have publicly committed to deploying
LTE, with 12 of them expected to roll out commercial services in 2010 and the remainder during 2011 and
2012," he adds.
Pyramid expects LTE to grow more rapidly than preceding mobile standards in terms of subscriptions.
"While it took nearly six years for UMTS/HSPA to reach 100 million subscriptions, Pyramid predicts that LTE
will take just over four years to reach the same milestone," explains Locke. "The number of LTE subscriptions
worldwide will grow at a CAGR of 404 percent from 2010 to 2014 and reach 136 million by year-end 2014," he
says.
"The majority of LTE subscriptions in the early stage will come in developed markets, where most of the first
LTE deployments will occur - with the US and Japan leading," Locke says. "However, LTE will grow 30
percent faster in emerging markets than developed ones; subscriptions in emerging markets will account for
43 percent of the LTE total in 2014, up from 5 percent in 2010," he adds. Fueled by vendor support of TDD-
mode, growth in emerging markets will be driven largely by China with 36.1 million subscriptions in 2014.
LTE's Five-Year Global Forecast: Poised to Grow Faster than 3G is part of Pyramid Research's Telecom
Insider report series. Telecom Insiders are packed with trend analysis, industry best practices, market sizing
and forecasting, competitor analysis, and case studies, providing you information you can leverage to make
better business decisions.
LTE's Five-Year Global Forecast: Poised to Grow Faster than 3G is priced at $595 and can be purchased
by contacting Jeff Claudino via email at claudino@pyr.com or telephone at +1-619-229-9940.
About Pyramid Research
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