GSMA: 50% of Mobile Connections will be on 3G/4G by 2017

While everybody looks at LTE, the majority of mobile connections are still on 2G, according to GSMA Wireless Intelligence. We will have to wait for 2017, to see 50% of mobile connections, globally, using 3G/4G.

Northern Europe and America are there already now (2G was less than 50% in 2012).

See "Dashboard, Global mobile network technology migration" - here.

[Wireless Intelligence]: 6B Mobile Connections Used by 3.2B Subscribers

Interesting stats by Wireless Intelligence [here] shows the number of mobile connections (SIM cards) and subscribers (people). Not sure how Machines are counted .. are they people too?

[Wireless Intelligence]: 1.6B Mobile Broadband Connections

Nice infographics from Wireless Intelligence showing mobile broadband statistics by geography and technology. 72% are HSPA based, 4% LTE.

See "Analysis: Dashboard, Mobile Broadband" - here.

[Wireless Intelligence]: Top 20 Global Operator Groups

    

Wireless Intelligence published its ‘Scoreboard’ operator ranking.for Q2, 2012. "The new ‘Scoreboard’ tracks the top 20 global operator groups by connections based on majority-owned assets in Q2 2012. Minority holdings (less than 50 percent plus one share) are excluded from the analysis".

Compared to the Q2 2011 scoreboard (see "World's Top20 Mobile Groups" - here) - Bharti Airtel (now #4) and Telefonica (#5) switched places.

  

"China’s three mobile operators all recorded double-digit subscriber growth over the last year .. France Telecom (#12) returned to the top 20 after dropping out of the list a year ago".

Source:Wireless Intelligence

See "Analysis: The top 20 global operator groups by mobile connections (Q2 2012)" - here.

Survey: MNOs Price LTE by Speed and Volume

 
A survey of 65 LTE MNOs (out of the current 88 MNOs providing LTE service) by Wireless Intelligence finds that ".. almost half of them have used the deployment of LTE as an opportunity to introduce a new form of pricing for mobile broadband services. This new strategy, which supersedes the earlier unlimited data model, uses download/upload speeds as well as data allowances to differentiate on price, allowing operators to make more efficient use of their high-speed network capacity in terms of generating revenues and preserving margins"

See "Wireless Intelligence: LTE operators adopt next-generation pricing models" - here.