The GSA has announced that global LTE has passed 1 billion of the worlds 7.4 billion subscriptions. GSA say that at the end of 2015 there were 440 networks which were LTE equipped with 116 including the three Australian networks providing carrier aggregation LTE-A service. GSA predicts that by 2020, when it is widely expected that the first 5G networks will launch, that 4G LTE will reach equal subscriptions with the WCDMA/HSPA 3G.
In Australia LTE subscriptions at the end of 2015 at 16.25 million (of the total of 31.7 million) were already more than 3G. The subscriptions by technology data for Australia is shown to the right.
The respected Ericsson Mobility Report for 2015 shows the historic and projected mobile subscriptions by technology.
Ericsson’s recording and projections of subscriptions by type from the same Mobility Report HERE are also interesting.
