Most Mobile Connections in North America Now LTE, 4G Americas Says
LTE represents 51 percent of mobile connections in North America, or 219 million, 4G Americas said in a news release Thursday. That's 69 million new LTE customers since September 2014, and the expectation is LTE connections in North America will…
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hit 392 million by 2021, it said. Latin America had LTE growth of close to 350 percent over the past 12 months, with LTE and high-speed packet access mobile broadband connections combined being close to half of all mobile connections in the region, 4G Americas said. The trade group said LTE penetration for North America is at 61 percent, with the next highest global market Western Europe at 27 percent. There are 68 commercial LTE networks in the U.S and Canada, and 435 worldwide, 4G Americas said. Globally, there were 908 million LTE connections as of the end of Q3, up 152 million in one quarter.