There are 300 commercial LTE networks now in 107 countries and 350 commercial LTE networks are anticipated by the end of 2014, reports 4G Americas. Additionally, LTE-Advanced is now commercially deployed on 9 networks in 7 countries worldwide, with those numbers expected to reach 40 networks by year-end 2014.

With 277.6 Million LTE subscriptions globally, LTE connections are forecast to surpass 2.3 billion by 2020 (Informa Telecoms & Media WCIS+). U.S. and Canada have largest LTE market share with 125.8M users in 49 LTE networks whereas Europe accounts for 39.8M LTE subscriptions in 115 LTE networks. Asia Pacific and Latin America & Caribbean have 103.6M in 54 LTE networks and 3.6M LTE users in 40 LTE networks respectively.

In March of this year, AT&T launched LTE-Advanced in Chicago. It is expected that all four national U.S. carriers – AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon – will launch LTE-Advanced in 2014 and 2015.