Year-End 2012: 50 Percent Growth in Mobile Broadband in the Americas

Year-End 2012: 50 Percent Growth in Mobile Broadband in the Americas

BELLEVUE, WA — (Marketwire) — 03/07/13 — 4G Americas, a wireless trade association representing the 3GPP family of technologies, today announced that subscriptions to 3GPP mobile broadband technologies (HSPA and LTE) grew to 274 million connections in one year ending December 2012, based on data from Informa Telecoms & Media."3GPP mobile broadband subscriptions grew 50 percent year-over-year to end-2012 and now account for 32 percent of all 3GPP subscriptions in the Americas,"