LTE-Advanced Will Represent 60% of All LTE Subscriptions by 2020

LTE-Advanced has been commercially deployed on 100 networks worldwide in 49 countries, according to 4G Americas.

LTE-Advanced uses carrier aggregation to increase bandwidth efficiency and boost download speeds.

Signals and Systems Telecom estimates that overall LTE service revenues will account for nearly $170 billion in 2015, growing at a 30-percent compound annual growth rate for five years.

By 2020 nearly 60 percent of all LTE subscriptions will be on LTE-Advanced networks.