In North America, LTE technology provided 33 percent...
In North America, LTE technology provided 33 percent of the total 391 million mobile connections for the first half of 2014, a 4G Americas report found. North America has 45 percent of all LTE connections worldwide; Asia Pacific has 36…
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percent; and Western Europe, more than 13 percent, it said Thursday in a news release (http://bit.ly/1r93FWz). Research for the report was done by Ovum, 4G Americas said. North America has an LTE penetration rate of nearly 36 percent, it said. Western Europe’s penetration rate is 8 percent, and Asia Pacific has a nearly 3 percent penetration rate, it said. Subscriber demand for mobile broadband data applications and services in the U.S. and Canada is driven in part by innovations in regulatory policy, new advanced LTE networks and significant smartphone penetration, 4G Americas said. Although LTE subscriptions remain low in Latin America, they're growing rapidly, with 4.8 million connections at the end of Q2 2014, “representing an annual increase of 900 percent at the end of the second quarter,” it said. Global LTE subscriptions grew 179 percent year-over-year from 2012 to 2013, it said. They're expected to grow 95 percent from 2013 to 2014 to reach 386 million subscriptions, it said.