GSA, the Global mobile Suppliers Association, has announced that 251 LTE networks in 93 countries are now commercially launched. The number of countries with LTE service has grown 45% this year. 

LTE service has been introduced to 29 new countries so far in 2013. China is the newest market following the commercial launch by China Mobile of its LTE TDD (TD-LTE) network earlier this week.

The majority of LTE operators have deployed the FDD mode of the standard. The most widely used band in network deployments continues to be 1800 MHz which is used in over 44% of commercially launched LTE networks.