Juniper Research has released a report on the LTE (Long Term Evolution) market, 4G LTE Hardware Opportunities
Subscribers, End User Devices & Vendor Strategies 2010-2015.

The report notes that LTE 4G mobile networks will provide businesses and consumers with dramatically increased speeds and capacity to combat the effects of the mobile data traffic explosion such as network crashes. However, it concludes, only one in every 20 subscribers will benefit, though usage levels will be significantly higher in other regions such as N. America where it will be closer to 1 in 5 as major operators plan rollouts in the next six months.

The report forecasts that the number of LTE mobile broadband subscribers will exceed 300m globally by 2015. Most of this growth will occur from 2012, but mobile operators are preparing now as rapidly increasing data traffic from mobile apps and mobile internet usage forces them to react.
This report provides six year projections for LTE subscriber take-up each year, by region; enterprise and consumer subscriber figures, broken down by region; LTE network access SIMs (split by USB modem dongles, plug-in cards and embedded chipsets); and LTE end user devices (split by smartphones, laptops, netbooks, tablets, portable games consoles, mobile routers, femtocells and consumer devices such as cameras and MP3 players).

The report is available to buy along with a second, upcoming report, 4G LTE Revenue Opportunities: Business Models, Scenarios and Operator Strategies 2010 – 2015, due for publication in Q4 2010.

There’s more information here.