Mobile voice revenues continue to decline across all regions, but aggregate mobile service revenues for 2014 increased 2.8 percent over 2013 on the strength of mobile data services, ABI Research says.
In 2015, 4G data traffic has started to dominate the total traffic consumption, and the annual global 4G data usage in 2020 will exceed 224.7 Exabytes, 79 percent of the total data traffic, says ABI Research.
There will be 1.4 billion mobile subscribers in India by 2020, resulting in penetration of 100 percent, according to Ericsson. That is roughly the number of total global LTE subscribers in 2015.
The appendix reveals that the GSM/EDGE (2G) subscriber base is expected to peak in 2015 and expected to decline thereafter as subscribers migrate to 3G services.
Third generation (WCDMA/HSPA) subscriptions are expected to grow from over 120 million in 2014 to around 620 million by 2020, with the proportion of WCDMA/HSPA subscriptions in the total subscription base reaching 45 percent.
Fourth generation LTE subscriptions are likely to reach more than 230 million, forming around 17 percent of the total subscription base by 2020.
Second generation GSM/EDGE networks presently have the widest reach in India, with 95 percent population coverage.
Third generation networks cover more than 35 percent of the Indian population at the end of 2014, and is expected to cover approximately 90 percent by the end of 2020.
About 40 percent of the population will be covered by LTE networks by 2020, Ericsson predicts.
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