Rating: Verizon’s Labs have helped out smaller manufacturers
Only days after Nokia has announced a W7 Mango based LTE-ready device for the USA – the Lumia 900, market watcher, Pyramid Research, has released a report claiming that smartphones will overtake PCs in LTE subscriptions by 2014. Pyramid says that the number of available LTE devices has risen to over 200 – a figure which represents more than a tenfold increase since Q1 2011. Although PCs account for the majority of LTE subscriptions at present, smartphones will become the largest segment by 2014, Pyramid says. These finding are included in a new video based on a report by Pyramid Research’s analyst at large, Jan ten Sythoff. It’s entitled ‘LTE Devices and Applications: Next-generation mobile networks driven by video services’.According to Sythoff, “The majority of products are currently aimed at PCs, with three out of five devices models being discrete modems, either routers or PC add-on devices.”
The number of LTE modules has increased from none at the end of 2010 to 30 in October 2011.
Typically, LTE smartphones are on the Android platform with larger screens, front-facing cameras, and have broad video connectivity capabilities
The researcher claims that Verizon’s Innovation Lab has been an important driver behind the number of machine (module) devices for LTE by providing technical resources to smaller companies looking to integrate LTE capabilities into a variety of different devices..
“In 2016, 57.3 percent of LTE subscriptions are expected to be smartphones, 33.4 percent PCs, 7.6 percent tablets and the remainder machine-to-machine devices,” Sythoff claims.
This latest Pyramid Research report provides an overview and background of the LTE market, operator approaches and the LTE value chain.
It details LTE devices, including PC add-ons, hotspots, smartphones and tablets. Additionally, Pyramid Research examines LTE applications and concludes by looking at a number of mobile operator case studies from around the world.
You can download an excerpt from the report here or watch the Pyramid preview video here.
The full report costs $3,495.
