LTE-Top 12 Challenges

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Without a doubt, mobile broadband is today’s growth engine for the telecom industry. The emerging picture is clear: consumers want mobile broadband, and they want it now. This is indeed phenomenal growth so far, but let’s put this in perspective of what is still to come: according to industry organization GSMA, there are ~4.3B wireless users in the world, of which 80 percent are voice-only GSM users, while only 9 percent are 3G WCDMA and HSPA users (i.e., voice + data users). Thus the growth opportunity for mobile broadband (data) is at least 3B subscribers—and there’s a good chance that many, if not most, of them can be captured in the next 5-10 years. FIND MORE OF THIS ARTTICLE AT: http://trends-in-telecoms.blogspot.com/2012/01/lte-top-12-challenges.html