They should have a street party or something.
3G Americas said GSM-HSPA technology comprised 91 per cent of the market in Latin America with more than 464 million connections reported at year end 2009. The press release doesn't spell it out, but one assumes the addition of CDMA subs takes the total past half a billion.
In 2009, the number of GSM-HSPA subscriptions in Latin America increased by nearly 64 million, of which 9.4 million were 3G connections. In Brazil alone there were 28 million new connections in 2009.
In North America, GSM-HSPA added 13.6 million new subscriptions in 2009 and 8 million in the fourth quarter alone.
"GSM-HSPA operators in the U.S. had a great fourth quarter, adding more subscriptions than in the previous three quarters combined," said Mike Roberts, principal analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media. "Across North and Latin America, GSM to HSPA accounted for 73 percent of mobile subscriptions at the end of 2009, up from 70 percent at the end of 2008."
Globally, GSM-HSPA technologies reached 4.17 billion subscriptions or 89 per cent market share. Today, there are more than 450 million 3G UMTS-HSPA subscriptions representing ten per cent of the GSM family technology market on 345 commercial networks in 139 countries worldwide.
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