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U.S. Won't Hold LTE Crown For Long
Asian LTE Boom to Knock us Out of First Place

According to new data from Telegeography, the United States leads the way in LTE deployment -- but that lead isn't expected to last as Asian ISPs quickly embrace the faster wireless standard. The firm notes that there were 39 LTE networks live worldwide by mid-November 2011, with more than half of those having launched this year. Recent data from Informa noted that Verizon accounts for a whopping 63% of the total 6.4 million global LTE userbase. TeleGeography meanwhile suggest that there will be more than 400 million LTE mobile subscribers by the end of 2016, with half of those customers located in Asia.

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Duramax08
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I like my space

I would hate to live in a coffin like apartment. They live like sardines over there, thats why the numbers are high.

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Re: I like my space

It does help them deploy to more users, but they also are more serious about deploying faster services.

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said by Duramax08:

I would hate to live in a coffin like apartment. They live like sardines over there, thats why the numbers are high.

outside texas, living space is tight in alot of major cities in the us.

a 500 sq foot 1 bedroom apartment in a decent neighborhood in Los Angeles or NYC probably rents for more than what you pay in mortgage each month.

Duramax08
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That is true, Buy minimum wage at places like those are like $20 an hour. My dad has a aunt that lived right off some highway in LA, really small house, neighbors are a hop and a piss away. They sold the house for about $800k, moved to texas and now living in a 200k decent size house with backyards and the works. Back in the 70's they all decided to move from SA to LA, guess the tides have changed and theyre all coming back.
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minimum wage in LA and New york is NOT higher than standard federal minimum wage. Many places survive on debt. The average person in LA has 120k in credit card debt. and everyone wonders why our economy is so bad.

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Everytime some news item comes out about how US leads in # of users in some category of technology, as sure as Death & taxes we will see a story about how Asia will soon pass us. As if that is some reflection on US capabilities or corporate greed.

Guess what, Asia will always lead after a period of time. In 2010 they had approx 4.2 billion people to North America's 352 million.
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Of course it is a reflection, considering we barely lead in anything but defense. Prior to VZ's LTE launch just last year, we had some of the slowest 3G networks in the industrialized world, while also one of the most expensive.

Population alone has little to do with it considering nations with higher and others with lower population densities still offering better and cheaper services. Most has lots of competition, indeed because of the policies of their government, a concept rural GOP types fail to grasp.

I won't even start with the broadband comparisons, where they absolutely destroy us too.
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completely agree ...sardines in a can
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Re: I like my space

Makes me think of Northern, VA and DC frankly... That's what "I" feel like!
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what flavors of LTE in asia and europe?

What major bands of LTE's are they going to have in Asia and Europe? The US is going to end up with 3 to 5 non-interoperable bands of LTE, so if I traveled overseas a lot, I like to have my US LTE phone the same as where I go overseas.

Does anyone get the feeling that its like 1990's all over again, where roaming don't exist and its a crapshoot if your phone works overseas?
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Re: what flavors of LTE in asia and europe?

In general - US accounts for ~6% of global Wireless market (by numbers). China alone accounts for more than 25%, with Asia total at nearly 50%.
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Agreed. The duopolies are in collaboration to have made it extremely cost prohibitive to change providers.

Last but not least, are eliminating competition and leaving almost no one else but themselves to choose from.
iansltx
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So?

By the end of 2016 the big three/four (probably three) will all have LTE/LTE-Advanced so it will really be a question of how many wireless devices/phones/etc. are in the US vs. elsewhere rather than LTE penetration in and of itself. inda like the vast, vast majority o phones sold today can do 3G.

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More skewed stats.

It's not possible for the US to lead the world in LTE subscriber numbers. The US is what 300 something million people and Aisia is 2 billion plus?

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Re: More skewed stats.

said by battleop:

It's not possible for the US to lead the world in LTE subscriber numbers. The US is what 300 something million people and Aisia is 2 billion plus?

4.2 billion

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U.S. Won't Hold LTE Crown for Long...if at all


No surprise there. There's no 'value' for companies to offer value to their customers, much less at a reasonable mark-up.

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here vs there

Wonder what the rates are there vs here..
axiomatic
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The difference...

The difference is that Asian ISP's wont institute a data cap when they do it.