the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). The figure reaffirms LTE as the fastest developing mobile system technology ever.
Some additional stats:
- 292 operators have made firm commitments to deploy commercial LTE networks in 93 countries.
- 11 commercial LTE TDD systems have launched in Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, Oman, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sweden and the UK.
- 68 operators have launched commercial LTE services in the past 12 months.
- GSA forecasts there will be 152 commercial LTE networks operating in 65 countries by December 31, 2012.
- LTE in 1800 MHz spectrum is now launched on one third of all commercial LTE networks.