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Widespread adoption of LTE will be slower than expected: In-Stat report


BEFORE LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE) can truly become the dominant wireless airlink, the technology has several formidable challenges that it must overcome, according to the market research firm In-Stat.For starters, spectrum has to be cleared, licensed and either allocated or sold off before LTE takes hold. As every country has its own telecommunications regulations, these factors will take varying periods of time to be resolved.In its report The State of the LTE Market: CAPEX, Deployments, Subscribers and Services, In-Stat outlines several major factors that it says must work in concert to affect the global LTE market:- Chipset and device support –...