Strategy Analytics predicts legitimate mobile phone sales to grow by over 3% worldwide in 2018. Several billion 2G, 3G and 4G handsets will be sold globally during the next seven years, particularly in major countries such as China, USA and Brazil. LTE will be the most important growth category and a new catagory, 4G feature phones, will contribute to the growth. Importantly 5G will emerge during the forecast period. Our extensive report forecasts handset sales for 6 regions and 88 countries worldwide, from 2002 to 2022. The datamodel provides forecasts for 19 separate 2G, 3G and 4G technologies, including GSM, EDGE, CDMA, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, HSPA+, HSUPA, LTE, LTE-A and 5G. The report contains pivot-tables and flat-files for enhanced data manipulation.