July 9, 2009 - 5:04am
According to a new report from Juniper Research, the number of LTE next generation networks is set to grow significantly with the number of subscribers exceeding 100 million by 2014. And these market numbers will be buoyed by the embedding of broadband capabilities within consumer electronics devices such as MP3 players, Netbooks and digital cameras. While subscribers will use handsets such as smart phones, and laptops, consumers will be motivated to connect devices in the home by LTE.
"There is intense activity in the LTE market right now, with in excess of 30 network operator commitments. Operators and vendors alike are moving rapidly to jump on the road to LTE, attracted by the connectivity-based opportunities that the technology offers. Sony, for example, announced that network connectivity is one of 3 top priority actions,” said report author Howard Wilcox.
The report findings include:
Whilst early LTE adopters will be enterprise subscribers, consumers will begin to take up LTE based services towards 2012/2013;
There will be multiple millions of LTE subscribers as early as 2011;
Embedded LTE chipsets will become the second most popular means of access behind SIM cards by 2014.
Besides, the report gives a comprehensive six year forecasting suite of critical figures, data and analysis on enterprise and consumer subscriber take-up, devices, network access via dongles, cards and embedded capability, chipset shipments, ARPUs and service revenues. The report also assessed the key mobile operators and vendors pioneering in this developing market.
"There is intense activity in the LTE market right now, with in excess of 30 network operator commitments. Operators and vendors alike are moving rapidly to jump on the road to LTE, attracted by the connectivity-based opportunities that the technology offers. Sony, for example, announced that network connectivity is one of 3 top priority actions,” said report author Howard Wilcox.
The report findings include:
Whilst early LTE adopters will be enterprise subscribers, consumers will begin to take up LTE based services towards 2012/2013;
There will be multiple millions of LTE subscribers as early as 2011;
Embedded LTE chipsets will become the second most popular means of access behind SIM cards by 2014.
Besides, the report gives a comprehensive six year forecasting suite of critical figures, data and analysis on enterprise and consumer subscriber take-up, devices, network access via dongles, cards and embedded capability, chipset shipments, ARPUs and service revenues. The report also assessed the key mobile operators and vendors pioneering in this developing market.