19 July 2009 | In a  Newly released forecasts by Coda Research Consultancy, a technology and media specialist show that portable laptop and notebook users accessing the internet via mobile broadband will produce US$48bn in operator revenues in 2017 with 418m people worldwide. LTE will lead to more traffic per user than for mobile broadband in general. LTE via portables will hit 1.1 exabytes per month in 2017, with Asia Pacific taking up 45% of this.

Included in these are commentary and forecasts for LTE (Long Term Evolution).

Key Questions answered by this report:

• What are the short, medium and long term patterns of mobile broadband take-up, including LTE?
• How much service revenue and ARPU will users generate worldwide and by region each year?
• What proportions of these revenues and ARPU will be derived from LTE?
• What types of traffic will each region generate?
• What proportions of this traffic will be generated by LTE?
• Which will be the prime regions for 3G/3G+ and LTE deployments, and which will be the most and least profitable?
• What are the trends, drivers and constraints impacting and shaping the development of the mobile broadband, including LTE, market?

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