LTE is set for dynamic growth this year. Connection volumes are expected to rise by 900%, to 90 million, by the end of 2012. Meanwhile, LTE smartphones, outgrowing their early core markets in the U.S., Japan, and South Korea, are also forecast to see a dramatic rise, reaching more than a billion connections by 2017. Strategy Analytics Wireless Operator Strategies service, in its latest release, “Worldwide Cellular User Forecasts: 2012-2017,” predicts that LTE, which enjoys overwhelming support from global operators as their 4G upgrade path, will account for 15 percent of all mobile connections in 2017, an upward path that outpaces GSM (which took 12 years to reach one billion connections) and WCDMA (projected to take 11 years to reach the billion mark).

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With the recent release of “US & Western Europe Connected TV Owner Survey,” Strategy Analytics Digital Home Observatory reveals that owners of smart TVs in the U.S. are more than three times as likely to regularly make use of the Internet capabilities of their TVs than consumers in Europe. The hard numbers: more than 33% of American smart TV owners now connect their TV sets to the Internet at least once a week, compared to only 9% in Europe. Strategy Analytics believes one of the driving forces behind the domestic surge of connecting smart TVs is the availability of strong online video services such as Netflix. On the other hand, the study also found that 33% of smart TV owners in Europe and 22% in the U.S. had never set up their smart TV to connect to the Internet, even though a large number of buyers in both locations admit they had purchased the TV because of its Internet connectivity.

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