TD-LTE has now wider acceptance across the globe and is expected to make significant part of LTE subscriber growth in coming years thanks to Asia-Pacific market, the main growth engine for TD-LTE. According to study of Ovum 25% of all LTE connections will include LTE TDD by 2016.

As of today 7 commercial LTE TDD systems have been launched in Brazil, India, Japan, Poland, Saudi Arabia and Sweden. So far 80 LTE operators have launched commercial FDD/TDD LTE services.

In an upcoming report, analyst firm states that LTE TDD has moved well beyond being a "Chinese-specific" technology and has already been adopted by operators in Japan, the Middle East, and Europe.

Many mobile operators, such as Softbank (Japan), Optus (Australia), Hi3G (Sweden and Denmark), and STC (Saudi Arabia), have gone or are going the multimode LTE FDD/TDD route as part of their existing GSM and WCDMA/HSPA networks, Ovum further adds.

Last month ABI Research had predicted that Global TD-LTE subscription numbers will grow from one million subscriptions at the end of 2012 to 139 million subscriptions by 2017. China, India, and Japan are collectively forecasted to account for 92 million TD-LTE subscriptions.