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    LTE & 5G

    Subscribers
    September 2020

    Market Growth and Forecasts


    LTE Subscriber Growth Figure 1: LTE & other subscriptions as of Q2 2020 *

    By the end of Q2 2020 there were 5.55 billion


    LTE subscriptions worldwide.

    Nearly 800 million LTE subscriptions were


    added in the preceding 12 months.

    16.7% YoY growth.

    LTE subscriptions now account for 60.4% of


    all global mobile subscriptions.

    5G subscriptions doubled in the second


    quarter of 2020 to reach at least 137.7 million
    globally (representing 1.5% of the entire
    global mobile market).

    * Source of data – Omdia provided to GSA: September 2020

    ©Copyright 2020 Global mobile Suppliers Association LTE & 5G Subscribrers | Snapshot September 2020 | 1
    LTE Subscriptions Regional Shares to Q2 2020
    Figure 2: LTE Subscriptions Regional Shares*

    Figure 3: Mobile Subscriptions Forecast- end 2025*


    Subscriber Forecast
    According to its latest figures, globally
    Omdia forecasts there will be nearly
    10.30 billion mobile subscriptions by
    the end of 2025.

    LTE is expected to reach its peak


    point in terms of technology market
    share at the end of 2021 (at 63.3%),
    and to reach its peak point in terms
    of subscriber numbers at the end of
    2022 (at 6.07 billion subscribers).

    From 2023 the LTE market is


    forecast to start to decline slowly, as
    customers migrate to 5G.

    Between end 2020 and end 2025, the


    share of the market represented by
    GSM subscriptions will fall from 15.1%
    to 5.6%, and the share represented
    by W-CDMA will decline from 19.4%
    to 11.3%.

    By the end of 2025, 5G will account


    for nearly 30% of the global market
    # Other includes analogue, CDMA, iDen, TD-SCDMA and US TDMA (at 3.03 billion subscriptions),
    although LTE will still be dominant

    * Source of data – Omdia provided to GSA: September 2020


    at 53.5% of all global mobile
    subscriptions.

    ©Copyright 2020 Global mobile Suppliers Association LTE & 5G Subscribrers | Snapshot September 2020 | 2
    ABOUT GSA
    GSA is the voice of the global mobile
    ecosystem and has been representing
    mobile suppliers since 1998.

    GSA GAMBoD Database


    Reports are based on data contained
    in the GSA GAMBoD databases
    which is a resource available to GSA
    Members and Associates. Companies
    and policy makers can subscribe as
    a GSA Associate to the database to
    gain insights into the source data
    behind reports for their own research
    purposes.

    Discounted annual subscription are


    available to regulators, government
    agencies and mobile operators.

    Please email info@gsacom.com for


    more information.

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    Farnham
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    ©Global mobile Suppliers Association. 2020

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