More than $340 billion (£219 billion) will be generated worldwide by 4G LTE services in 2017, compared to just over $75 billion this year.
That’s approximately 31% of total service revenues from all 2G, 3G and 4G mobile services, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
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Last month a number of research companies published their estimates for mobile phone shipments in 2012.
Gartner is the latest to join in, noting that its figures showed total worldwide mobile phone sales dropping by 1.7% year-on-year to 1.75 billion units in 2012.
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Podcast - 13th February 2013
There are many mobile boundaries being blurred in this week's podcast.
Topics include Truphone's combined WiFi and mobile service, Skype's move to direct mobile billing, the rise of 4G and an Android-controlled satellite.
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Mobile broadband customers want more value-added services to choose from and are willing to pay their network operator for personalisation across these extra services.
Those are some of the findings from a survey sponsored by mobile broadband specialist Tekelec.
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Apple has released a new update to its mobile operating system.
It says the iOS 6.1.1 update “fixes an issue that could impact cellular performance and reliability for iPhone 4S”.
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