LTE AND 5G – MARKET GROWTH AND FORECASTS

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LTE SUBSCRIPTIONS GROWTH*

By the end of 2Q 2019 there were © 2019 Global mobile

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nearly 4.7 billion LTE subscriptions
worldwide.

Nearly 986 million subscriptions were

added in the preceding 12 months.

26.6% YoY growth.

LTE subscriptions now account for

53.1% of all global mobile
subscriptions.

5G subscriptions reached 1.398

million by the end of 2Q (representing
0.016% of the entire global mobile
market).

* Source of data – Ovum WCIS provided to GSA on 17 September

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LTE SUBSCRIPTIONS REGIONAL SHARES TO END 2Q 2019*

APAC: 67.1% share of global subscriptions

• Europe: 11.5%
• North America: 9.8%
• Latin America & Caribbean: 6.9%
• Middle East: 2.8%
• Africa: 1.8%

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* Source of data – Ovum WCIS provided to GSA on 17 September 2019

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MOBILE SUBSCRIPTIONS FORECAST*

Globally there will be more than 9.9 billion

mobile subscriptions by the end of 2023.

LTE is expected to account for nearly 61%

global market share by the end of 2022,
although the market is expected to peak at
that point.

It will subsequently fall back as the number

of new LTE customers is exceeded by the
number of LTE customers migrating to 5G.

Between 2019 and the end of 2023 share of

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# Other includes analogue, CDMA, iDen, TD-SCDMA and US TDMA
the market represented by 2G subscriptions
will fall from 23% to 10%, and the share
represented by W-CDMA will decline from
24% to 19%.
At the end of 2023 5G will account for 13%
of the global market, although LTE will still
be dominant at 57% of all global mobile
subscriptions.

* Source of data - Ovum WCIS provided to GSA on 17 September 2019

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