Global LTE users were 1.05 billion in 2015 and will exceed 3 billion in 2020
Optical Communication Network: The number of global LTE users reached 1.05 billion in 2015.
Market research organization Ovum pointed out that global LTE users will reach 3.62 billion in 2020.
The proportion of Indian LTE users in the global LTE service market will grow from a smaller share in 2015 to 10% in 2020.
The main 4G service providers in India are Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, Reliance Jio Infocomm and Vodafone India.
Chinese LTE users’ share of the global LTE service market will decrease from 35% in 2015 to 28% in 2020.
U.S. LTE users account for the largest share of global LTE usersUser share will drop from 21% in 2015 to 10% in 2020.
Japanese LTE users’ share of global LTE users will drop from 9% in 2015 to 4% in 2020.
South Korea’s 4G market share will shrink from the current 4% to 2% in 2020.
Indonesia’s LTE market share will reach 3% in 2020.
It took less than six years for LTE users to reach 1 billion, while it took more than 10 years for W-CDMA.
In Q4 2015, China’s net user increase was 50%, accounting for 35% of the global net increase of users.
China Mobile and China Telecom is the main 4G network operator in China
Ovum predicts that by the end of 2020, most current 2G users will become rare, and 3G and 4G users will account for 85% of all users.
