Global mobile handset shipments improved by nearly 3% YoY in Q3 2017. The 4G LTE market grew a healthy 20% YoY, but the 3G and 2G segments cotinue to shrink. Samsung held the top spot in LTE, while Vivo and OPPO soared up the charts and Itel entered the global handset top 10 for the first time. In our extensive report, Strategy Analytics provides worldwide quarterly handset shipments by nine major 2G, 3G and 4G protocols, for the top 30 vendors, from 2001 to Q3 2017.