3G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the GSM family of technologies including LTE, today announced that GSM-HSPA is expected to reach 4 billion mobile connections worldwide in September 2009.
“Automobiles and telephones, followed by televisions and personal computers, have undeniably changed the world and have greatly shaped the way in which we live our lives,” said Chris Pearson, President of 3G Americas. “Wireless mobile telephony substantially exceeds the impact of any one of these major innovations.
UMTS-HSPA which has captured an annual worldwide gain of 57 percent in the year ending June 2009, according to Informa Telecoms & Media’s World Cellular Information Service.
UMTS-HSPA added more than 137 million new connections in 12 months, and now totals 377 million subscriptions worldwide at the end of second quarter 2009.
Worldwide, 277 commercial networks offer HSPA in 116 countries. Additionally, 11 networks have been upgraded to HSPA+. According to Informa, by the year 2012, UMTS-HSPA will reach a milestone of one billion subscribers.
According to Informa, by the year 2012, UMTS-HSPA will reach a milestone of one billion subscribers. They boldly predict 6.3 million wireless subscribers by 2014.
Intel says Mobile WiMAX is the most cost/effective way to deliver broadband. Cellular operators say LTE will prevail as the defacto wireless broadband solution.
With its 1.2 billion people, India is filled with opportunity and challenges for wireless companies. At the end of November, 2008, India had 374 million telephone connections. The total number of broadband lines (which includes any connection that runs at 256 kbit/s or faster) is now nearly 5.3 million, according to Unstrung.
Analysis by Juniper Research indicates up to 12% of the global DSL installed base will be substituted by WiMAX by 2013. The Far East will lead with over one fifth of the 47 million WiMAX subscribers in 2013, said the research company.
