Mobidia: US LTE Subscribers Reach Nearly 100 Million

With the pace of commercial rollouts rising fast, LTE is benefiting those mobile telecom providers who have deployed it, according to market research spanning 100 mobile operators and hundreds of thousands of Android smartphone users in 10 of the world’s leading LTE markets collected anonymously from January-December 2013.

There were nearly 100 million LTE subscriptions (99.40 mm) across the US as of end-December 2013, up from 38.6 million as of year-end 2012 -- the most across any of the 10 countries in the survey, according to the latest whitepaper in Mobidia Technology-Informa’s, “Understanding Today’s Smartphone Users.” The 4G markets covered in Mobidia-Informa’s latest whitepaper – “Smartphone use transforming with the rise of 4G and Wi-Fi” -- were among the top 15 in the world by subscriptions as of year-end 2014. US LTE subscriptions accounted for 49.38% of the total across all 10 countries.