Korea and United States are countries with bigger quantity of 3G EVDO cellulars. Although 3G UMTS cellulars are concentrated in Ásia/Pacific and Europe. Japan is the country with more 3G UMTS cellulars, 34.7 million in the 3Q06.
Cellulars UMTS (WCDMA)
Thousands
2004
2005
2006
1Q07
Pacific Asia
9.5
24.6
46.5
52.9
Europe
7.7
23.0
49.6
58.7
USA/Canada
0.0
0.1
1.2
2.0
Others
0.0
0.5
1.5
1.9
Total
17.2
48.2
98.9
115.6
3G Operators
The following table presents the main 3G operators in the World.
It's following below the quantity of countries and 3G networks in commercial transaction in Nov/06. The source are GSA and CDG. The following sites also follows the implantation of 3G systems in the World: 3GToday and 3Gamericas.
On April 2007 GSA with 110 HSDPA networks operating in 57 countries. 49 with 3.6 Gbit/s or more.
HSUPA
Ericsson and the operator 3 Italy (H3G) had launched commercially in Jan/07 the first HSUPA network of the world. In feb/07 Mobilkom (Austria) started its HSUPA network commercial operation.
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