Pricing, profit models stifle LTE growth, says report

MONTREAL - LTE is seeing rapid growth and is expected to generate over $1.7 billion for wireless vendors in 2012. That figure could increase tenfold in the next five years, but only if operators address several key business challenges first, says a new report by Maravedis-Rethink. According to the latest 4G Counts report, despite a 61% increase in subscribers between the first and second quarters, LTE will account for less than 5% of global wireless capex this year, and mass LTE deployments are highly concentrated within a few carriers and geographies. For these successes to be repeated around the world, mobile...