Mobile Spectrum

 MOBILE SPECTRUM MARKET HIGHLIGHTS

1. WiFi offload may also be helping ease the spectrum crunch: Some mobile operators report to Infonetics that up to 75% of mobile device data traffic is on WiFi

2. Despite the ubiquity of HSPA and EVDO, average mobile     connectionspeeds remain low, below 4 Mbps on average in the 16 countries included in Infonetics’ analysis

3. Russia has the highest average (4.1 Mbps) and peak (21 Mbps) mobile connection speeds, mainly because it has one of the world’s best mobile networks but relatively few 3G subscribers and low Internet usage

4. The U.S. leads the global mobile broadband race when it comes to number of LTE subscribers, accounting for just over half of the world’s 64 million LTE subscribers

5. Countries with heavy mobile broadband usage such as the US, South Korea, and Japan are on track to need 1,000 MHz of spectrum by 2017

6. Indonesia, the 3rd largest population on earth, has the potential to be the “new China” in terms of mobile growth opportunities; however, the country has been slow to enable mobile broadband and open up 3G spectrum

REPORT SYNOPSIS

Infonetics’ new mobile spectrum report provides market size, forecasts, analysis, and trends for mobile spectrum in the world’s 16 largest economies (according to the World Bank): The United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Brazil, United Kingdom, Italy, Russia, India, Canada, Spain, Australia, Mexico, South Korea, and Indonesia. The report also features a 3G and 4G Spectrum Auctions Tracker following 65 countries by region, status, and scheduled deployments.