GSA: Evolution to LTE Report – January 2017

This is the January 2017 update to the GSA Evolution to LTE report.

This report is restricted to GSA Member companies, GSA Associates and Operators until February 28th, 2017

Main points:

• 790 operators investing in LTE in 201 countries
• 764 operator commitments in 196 countries
• 26 pre-commitment trials in 5 more countries
• 581 commercially launched LTE, LTE-Advanced or LTE-Advanced Pro networks in 186 countries including:
• 95 LTE TDD (TD-LTE) launched in 54 countries
• 183 launched networks are LTE-Advanced in 87 countries of which 17 use LTE-Advanced Pro technologies
• GSA forecasts c. 635 commercially launched LTE networks by end 2017
• Operator investments in LTE-Advanced or LTE-Advanced Pro (deployments, commercial launches, trials, studies) span 100 countries
• 102 operators commercially launched VoLTE-HD voice service in 54 countries
• 7,037 LTE user devices announced (GSA – January 13, 2017)
• 1.683 billion LTE subscriptions globally: Q3 2016

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