Study expects 32 million LTE subscribers in three years after launch
With Planet Earth's wireless juggernauts jumping on the LTE train while there's still room, we suppose the latest report from ABI Research isn't all that shocking. According to it, there will be some 32 million LTE network subscribers by 2013, and with the commercial launch not expected to go down before 2010, our abacus suggests that we're talking about 32 million over just 3 years. The firm asserts that the Asia-Pacific region will account for most of those folks (around 12 million), while the rest get split 60% / 40% between Western Europe and North America. You think we're just going to let you make this outlandish claim and then fuhgetaboutit, don't you ABI? Nah, we're creating a Google Calendar reminder for this day in 2013 right now to check back and see just how accurate you really were.[Via SlashPhone]
Filed under: Verizon Wireless, KDDI, Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo, Studies, China Mobile, LTE
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
reuvypoo @ Jun 20th 2008 12:47AM
Hopefully they are right. If Verizon starts deploying LTE in 2009, then has it up in major areas in 2010, and other carriers follow suit quickly (assuming AT&T is actually done with their 3G by then) we could very well have 10 million subscribers in the US by 2013.
Khaytsus @ Jun 20th 2008 3:42PM
And hopefully LTE doesn't suck battery like HSPA does. Over double the battery usage compared to EDGE!