LTE Ecosystem October 2024
Our October 2024 update on the LTE device ecosystem confirms that 28,428 user devices have been announced, including commercial 5G devices also supporting LTE. This represents an 8.8% increase since the end of 2023.
Highlights this edition include:
Mobile phones account for the largest number of identified devices, with 14,172 models catalogued, taking a 49.9% share of all LTE devices.
Of the 28,428 LTE-capable user devices known to GSA, 82.3% support the LTE-FDD mode.
The majority of IoT low-power wide-area devices are modules, but industrial and private network CPE and routers are also a strong form factor for LTE Cat-1 devices, with 1,217 devices announced.
This report highlights key statistics and analyses the main developments in the LTE device market. From mobile phones and wearable devices to industrial routers and asset trackers, various categories are tracked in this report and detailed in GSA’s GAMBoD database, available to GSA members. Information covers a broad range of areas, including form factors, spectrum frequencies supported, user equipment categories, feature support, cellular IoT devices and more.
LTE User Devices
Although 5G grabs the headlines, LTE still dominates global mobile telecom services. There are 832 operators with commercially launchedpublic mobile or broadband fixed wireless access networks (see GSA’s report Public Networks and Operators: GAMBoD Database Snapshot, September 2024).
There are 28,428 LTE-capable user devices including frequency and operator variants from 1,018 suppliers catalogued in GSA’s GAMBoD database, an 8.8% increase since the end of 2023
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LTE Ecosystem October 2024
