Momentum
There is huge momentum growing behind the Asia Pacific's road to LTE. While conservative timeframes for commercial deployments in the majority of nations in the region are focused on 2012 to 2014, the potential for expedited rollouts is significant.
Evidence in support of an earlier shift to LTE is seen in both the surge of operator trial activities and network upgrade activities, along with operator testing of LTE prospects in already assigned spectrum bands.
There is also a notable trend on the regulatory front as a number of regulators are seeking solutions to 4G spectrum incumbency issues and prospects for the early release of new spectrum suited to LTE.
Dianne Northfield is Vice President of Research, and Phil Marshall Chief Research Officer and founder, of Tolaga Research