LTE statistics by the end of July 2012

As of June 2012, 83 mobile carriers have launched LTE networks in 43 countries. As of July, there was more then 27 million LTE subscribers worldwide.

Top 5 LTE providers worldwide (by connections) as of July 2012:

1. Verizon Wireless, USA 

2. SK Telecom Co, S.Korea

3. NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan

4. LG Uplus, S.Korea

5. AT&T, USA

Top 3 countries (by LTE connections) as of July 2012:

1. U.S.

2. S.Korea

3. Japan

Source: LTE-depot

Gartner named the leading vendors LTE infrastructure

Ericsson is on the top of the pack, NSN, Huawei and ALU are following. \blogs.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

The worldwide LTE infrastructure market for radio and core service architecture evolution equipment is expected to grow from $4.1 billion in 2012 to $21.1 billion in 2016. This segment is expected to grow to over 40% of mobile infrastructure spend in 2016 and become the fastest-growing segment within mobile network infrastructure (radio and core). 

Source: Gartner “Magic Quadrant for LTE Network Infrastructure” by Sylvain Fabre, Frank Marsala, Jessica Ekholm, Akshay K. Sharma, Joy Yang, Akiyoshi Ishiwata, Deborah Kish, Tina Tian. Published 12 July 2012