North, Central and South America had 225 million 3rd Generation...
North, Central and South America had 225 million 3rd Generation Partnership Project mobile broadband connections as of the end of June -- an increase of 65.6 million from the same time last year, 4G Americas announced Thursday. Connections via 3GPP…
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represented 22 percent of the more than 1 billion total mobile subscriptions in the Americas region, according to data collected by Informa Telecoms & Media. Those statistics are an indication that mobile growth in the Americas is shifting toward 3GPP, 4G Americas said. “Non-3GPP subscriptions are on the decline in the Americas,” Informa senior analyst Kristin Paulin said in a 4G Americas news release. The number of “3GPP technologies subscriptions in the Americas grew 12.6 percent over the last year, while non-3GPP technologies subscriptions fell 2.4 percent during that time.” LTE has been most successful in North America, where the number of LTE subscribers rose from 2 million at the end of June 2011 to 15.4 million at the same time this year. North American subscribers made up 56 percent of the 27.7 million LTE subscribers worldwide, 4G Americas said (http://xrl.us/bnon79).