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Independent research organization, Pyramid Research has released its latest report entitled, “LTE (News - Alert) Devices and Applications: Next-generation mobile networks driven by video service,” which predicts that smartphones may be the largest segment by 2014, overtaking PCs.

This consequence may be because many operators worldwide are launching LTE networks and making way for users to use the LTE devices at a rate that has resulted in a tenfold increase since the end of 2010.

The Thematic Report by Jan ten Sythoff, offers an overview and background of the LTE market, operator approaches and the LTE value chain.

The key findings from the report are about LTE devices, including PC add-ons, hotspots, smartphones and tablets. It also looks at a number of mobile operator case studies around the world.

"The majority of products are currently aimed at PCs, with three out of five devices models being discrete modems, either routers or PC add-on devices," he says. However, Verizon's (News - Alert) Innovation Lab has been an important driver of machine (module) devices for LTE, providing technical resources to smaller companies looking to integrate LTE capabilities into a variety of different devices. The number of LTE modules has increased from none at the end of 2010 to 30 in October 2011,” says Jan ten Sythoff.

According to him, LTE smartphones are on the Android (News - Alert) platform with larger screens, front-facing cameras, and have broad video connectivity capabilities and by 2016, 57.3 percent of LTE subscriptions are expected to be smartphones, 33.4 percent PCs, 7.6 percent tablets and the remainder machine-to-machine devices.

Pyramid Research recently published another new report that speaks about fiber optic subscriptions that are expected to rise dramatically during the next few years. Pyramid Research, a provider of practical solutions to the complex demands its clients face in the global communications industry, states that Asia-Pacific's total fiber subscriptions are expected to nearly triple from 73.5m in 2011 to reach 204.9m by 2016.

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