ABSTRACT
Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile services started its deployment at the turn of 2010 and 2011. By the end of 2013, there were 268 LTE networks launched in 100 countries with a total of 157.7 million LTE users1 worldwide. Among these, 112 million LTE users have been added in 2013 and 79 million of them were activated from the North America markets. This growth illustrates a strong growing momentum for the LTE radio platform with an all-IP core network infrastructure to improve and expand the mobile business opportunities globally.
