{"id":740610,"date":"2013-03-05T22:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T03:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=360624"},"modified":"2013-03-05T22:55:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T03:55:19","slug":"lte-handset-shipments-surged-by-a-phenomenal-1100-in-q4-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740610","title":{"rendered":"LTE handset shipments surged by a \u2018phenomenal +1100%\u2019 in Q4 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/05\/lte-handset-shipments-q4-2012-360624\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"437\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/smartphones-498.jpeg?w=650&#038;h=437&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C437\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"LTE Handset Shipments\" title=\"Smartphones\" \/><\/a><\/center>2012 will likely go down as the year when <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/lte\">LTE<\/a> became <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/07\/06\/lte-smartphone-shipments-2016-586-million\/\">a standard smartphone feature rather than a luxury<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.strategyanalytics.com\/WDS\/post\/2013\/03\/04\/LTE-Phone-Shipments-Surge1100-in-Q4-2012.aspx\">Strategy Analytics has put out new research<\/a> this week showing that the fourth quarter of 2012 \"witnessed phenomenal +1100% annual growth for\u00a0LTE\u00a0handset volumes, led by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>)\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=005930.KS&amp;ql=0\">005930<\/a>) in developed markets.\" 2012 was certainly a banner year for LTE in the United States after Sprint (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=s\">S<\/a>) finally <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/19\/sprint-lte-availability-49-markets-259472\/\">got around to launching its own LTE services<\/a> and both Verizon (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=vz\">VZ<\/a>) and AT&amp;T (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=t\">T<\/a>) continued expanding their LTE networks to cover the majority of major markets throughout the country. With much of the U.S. now covered, carriers' next big milestone will be deploying <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/08\/07\/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-volte-upgrade-south-korea-telecom\/\">Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services that will let users make calls over LTE and thus potentially end the need for separate voice and data plans<\/a>.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/uz11Iy5RjeQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 will likely go down as the year when LTE became a standard smartphone feature rather than a luxury. Strategy Analytics has put out new research this week showing that the fourth quarter of 2012 &#8220;witnessed phenomenal +1100% annual growth for\u00a0LTE\u00a0handset volumes, led by\u00a0Apple (AAPL)\u00a0and Samsung (005930) in developed markets.&#8221; 2012 was certainly a banner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36Fk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}