According to the latest forecast report from our Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) services: Global Smartphone Sales Forecast by 19 Technologies (Air Interface) : 2007-2022, 4G LTE and LTE-Advanced smartphones will make up 70% global smartphone sales this year, up from 65% in 2015. In which 4.5G LTE-Advanced alone will generate 30% volume share in 2016, up from 19% one year ago.

China, USA, Japan and India are top 4 LTE smartphone countries worldwide at this moment.

We also predict 5G enabled smartphones will emerge first in South Korea and Japan from 2020 onwards, and then graudually extend into other markets.

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