LTE-Advanced Status Worldwide – May 2019
- By May 2019, there were 302 commercially launched LTE-Advanced networks in 134 countries.
- Overall, 333 operators are investing in LTE-Advanced (in the form of tests, trials, deployments or commercial service provision) in 141 countries
- Many operators with LTE-Advanced networks are looking to extend their capabilities by adding 3GPP Release 13 or Release 14 LTE-Advanced Pro features, e.g. those making use of carrier aggregation of large numbers of channels, or carriers across TDD and FDD modes, LAA, massive MIMO, Mission-Critical Push-to-Talk, LTE Cat-NB1/NB-IoT or LTE-M/Cat-M1
This map is from Evolution from LTE to 5G – May 2019 published by GSA and available from www.gsacom.com. Data is drawn from the GSA GAMBoDNTS database, accessible to subscribers at https://gsacom.com/gambod/
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