Strategy Analytics predicts legitimate mobile phone sales to grow 2.3% worldwide in 2018. Several billion 2G 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 global 4G volumes will grow 7% this year. 2G has risen back to 2nd biggest segment due strong sales of feature phones in emerging markets especially in Africa. Our extensive report forecasts handset sales for 6 regions and 88 countries worldwide, from 2003 to 2023. The datamodel provides forecasts for 19 separate 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.