Telecom Lead Asia: China Mobile, Vodafone, and America
Movil are the world’s top mobile operators by number of subscribers.
The number of mobile broadband subscribers jumped nearly
50 percent in 2011 to 846 million and we expect that number to reach 2.6
billion by 2016, driven by Brazil, Russia, India, China and others in the
developing world.
Infonetics Research anticipates Asia Pacific to account
for over half of the world’s mobile broadband subscribers by 2016, while Latin
America will see the fastest growth.
Total mobile subscribers — including GSM, W-CDMA, LTE,
TD-CDMA, cdmaOne, CDMA2000 — are forecast to pass the 6-billion mark in 2012.
Infonetics Research said total mobile subscribers will
approach 7 billion by 2016.
In some countries, the number of mobile subscribers
already surpasses the population, such as in Finland, where many people have
both personal and work phones.
More than 200 million traditional voice access lines will
get dropped over the next the 5 years as people continue to cut the cord.
The number of LTE subscribers is likely to near 450
million by 2016.
Despite some subscriber migration to TD-LTE, WiMAX
subscribers are expected to grow at a 35 percent compound annual growth rate
through 2016, when they will top 132 million.
DSL continues to grow despite competition from cable,
FTTH, and LTE, with DSL subscribers accounting for over 2/3 of all wireline
broadband subscriptions in 2011.
