South Korea hit the 8.4 million LTE connections

SK Telecom, largest mobile carrier, reported its 4 millionth connection last week. It was just 44 days between 3 and 4 million marks (+1 mil.  to June 2012).  / koreatimes.co.kr 

KT Corp. said it provided LTE to 1.4 million subs (+0,4 mil. to  May-June 2012).

LG Uplus Corp. expect to touch 3 million mark in few days (+1 mil. to May-June 2012).

Estimations: >10 mil LTE connections during 3q2012 and ~16 million by the 2012 year end.

Online mobile games popularity is one of the main drivers for so fast LTE adoption in the country. /english.yonhapnews.co.kr

All operators plan to support VoLTE soon.

My estimations of current number of LTE connections worldwide - about 21.3 million.