Press Release

Over 1,000 new LTE Devices identified by GSA

November 2017: The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has identified over 1,000 new LTE devices in the past four months. A full list of all the 9,544 LTE devices is available to view for GSA Member companies, GSA Associates and Mobile Operators in the GAMBoD LTE Devices database at https://gsacom.com
Some of the latest key metrics from the GAMBoD LTE Devices database are:

  • Over 80% of the newly identified devices support Band 3 – 1800 MHz, which is by far the largest LTE band in use globally
  • 14 Category 16 User Equipment devices (UE) have been identified in the past four months bringing the total umber of UE Cat-16 devices to 24
  • 17 devices support 256QAM in the downlink and of these 14 also support 4×4 MIMO
  • There is clear evidence of the Cat-NB1 ecosystem developing, with 366% growth in devices supporting Narrowband IoT over the last reporting period.

Other searchable UE features include LAA, LTE-U, eMBMS, VoLTE, ViLTE and Push to Talk (PTT) as well as searches of form factor, spectrum bands supported and fall backs technology.

GSA has also launched a new Networks, Technology and Spectrum database (GAMBoD-NTS) where 828 LTE Operators are identified along with the technology, feature and spectrum bands these operators are using for LTE. 5G trials are also registered in the NTS database.


By Joe Barrett On 10th November 2017