LTE ECOSYSTEM SNAPSHOT – FEBRUARY 2018

LTE user devices growth; LTE key numbers

Figure 1: LTE user devices growth

•  There are 651 LTE/LTE-Advanced commercially
networks (GSA: NTS Database - January 2018)
•  There were 2.54 billion LTE subscriptions globally by
the end of Q3 2017 (Ovum WCIS provided to GSA on 7
December 2017). LTE accounts for 30.3% of mobile
subscriptions globally
•  There are 10,655 LTE user devices including frequency
and operator variants from 602 suppliers verified in
GSA’s database (GAMBoD). This is 12% higher than the
number of devices GSA reported in November 2017.

These slides contain extracts from the GSA report “Status of the LTE
Ecosystem” published in February 2018 and available from
www.gsacom.com. The data is drawn from GAMBoD – the GSA
Analyser for Mobile Broadband Devices

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LTE user devices by form factor

Figure 2: All 10,655 LTE user devices by form factor, Feb 2018 Figure 3: 4,371 LTE TDD user devices by form factor, Feb 2018

These slides contain extracts from the GSA report “Status of the There are 4,371 devices (41% of all LTE devices) that support
LTE Ecosystem” published in February 2018 and available from the LTE TDD (TD-LTE) mode; 3,037 LTE TDD phones are
www.gsacom.com. The data is drawn from GAMBoD – the GSA included in GSA’s database
Analyser for Mobile Broadband Devices

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LTE user devices in main spectrum bands (FDD and TDD)

Table 1: LTE FDD user devices by band, Feb 2018 Table 2: LTE TDD user devices by band, Feb 2018

Note 1: Manufacturers have not declared operating frequencies or

fallback modes for some products
Note 2: Certain products are carrier or country specific and are
therefore not available in all markets
Note 3: A number of devices are currently listed as band “other”

These slides contain extracts from the GSA report “Status of

the LTE Ecosystem” published in February 2018 and available
from www.gsacom.com. The data is drawn from GAMBoD –
the GSA Analyser for Mobile Broadband Devices

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IoT, VoLTE, eMBMS and unlicensed spectrum user devices; Cat-9 and above
Table 3: Cellular IoT devices, Feb 2018
•  GSA has recorded 1,565 VoLTE-capable devices
including carrier and frequency variants
•  Of these devices, 1,439 are phones, which means
20.4% of LTE phones announced support VoLTE
•  15 devices support eMBMS for LTE Broadcast services
•  User devices increasingly support the use of
unlicensed spectrum
•  15 LAA devices announced
•  42 LTE-U devices announced
•  16 LWA devices announced
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Higher-speed devices
•  96 Cat-9 devices are launched (450/50 Mbit/s)
•  2 Cat-10 device is launched (450/100 Mbit/s)
•  53 Cat-11 devices are launched (600/50 Mbit/s)
•  72 Cat-12 devices launched (600/100 Mbit/s)
•  37 Cat-13 devices are launched (390/150 Mbit/s)
•  4 Cat-15 devices are launched (up to 750 Mbit/s DL)
•  42 Cat-16 devices are launched (up to 1 Gbit/s DL)
Note: Not all manufacturers publish details of UE category, uplink or
downlink speeds
These slides contain extracts from the GSA report “Status of the
LTE Ecosystem” published in February 2018 and available from
www.gsacom.com. The data is drawn from GAMBoD – the GSA
Analyser for Mobile Broadband Devices
www.gsacom.com www.twitter.com/gsacom +44 330 113 1572