Global LTE and LTE-Advanced connections reached 1.068 billion by the end of 2015 after a net addition of 156 million subscribers during the last quarter of the year, according to a recent report by the GSA.
For 2015, the net addition of LTE subscriptions totaled 552.2 million, which represented an annual growth of 107%, the GSA said.
According to the report, numbers of 4G and LTE-Advanced subscriptions are expected to pass the 3G/WCDMA-HSPA global total in 2020.