200 million 3G subscribers and counting
It turns out that, despite what T-Mobile USA would have you believe, 3G technology is more than a passing fad. A recent study published by GSM World has revealed that there are over 200 million 3G subscribers worldwide. The breakdown of subscribers by technology is as follows:
- 131 million UMTS subscribers
- 3.5 million HSDPA users
- 65 million EV-DO/EV-DO Rev. A subscribers
This is a pretty staggering set of statistics. Of the roughly 3 billion handsets worldwide, at least 6.7% of them are running some form of 3G technology. That doesn’t sound like much, but considering the fact that a large portion of the world’s network hasn’t hit 3G speeds yet, it’s a pretty impressive number. 20% of subscribers that live in 3G-capable areas have made the jump. The countries leading the 3G charge are South Korea with 75% saturation, Japan with 60% saturation, and Italy with a solid 35%. Sounds good to us, but we’d still like to see a more concentrated push towards complete 3G coverage here in the US. T-Mobile, your time has come and UMA for the most part, just ain’t gonna cut it.
dont forget at&t, they need to move faster to get this done asap. I dont see it as a necessity for most phones but for some “iphone,kaiser,n95″ it would be pretty cool.
Ok if all this correct why don’t we have more 3G phones.
3G phones sold != People using data
suposedly tmo is going to be rolling out hsdpa in sep.
Of which I’m one! Whoohoo!
Damn, I’m only a Statistic….
Is that why my TMO signals has been acting all wacky lately?
it’sa strong posability yuo gott pull systemes offline to upgrage your dardware i experinced an EDGE outage last night the reps ar apernly trained to say it’s a gloval outage but i don’t buy it I asked if they were impimenting hsdpa soon an the rep said ” um they don’t really tell us much only wht whe need to know”
Translation = “we know but the NDA we have says we can’t tell ya in english”
What I find interesting is that the # of EVDO subs is right around half of the UTMS subs. I don’t recall how many worldwide CDMA subs there are, but that’s gotta be a decent fraction of them.
Yes I’m a minority!!!!!!!!!! Oh boy I feel so special to be an HSDPA subscriber!! Mr. Blackjack you’ve made me so proud!!!!