The GSM Alliance today said that India would become the second-largest mobile broadband market globally within the next four years with 367 million mobile broadband (mobile broadband technologies include WCDMA, HSPA, LTE, TD-LTE, TD-SCDMA, CDMA2000 1X EV-DO) connections by 2016, overtaking the US, which will account for 337 million connections.

However, India will still be second to China, which will have reached 639 million connections in the same period.

Since 3G licenses were first awarded to mobile operators in India in September 2010, mobile broadband connectivity has grown steadily, with over 10 million high speed packet access (HSPA) connections across the country, and this is expected to grow exponentially, by 900 percent, to more than 100 million connections in 2014.

This will make India the largest HSPA market worldwide within the next two years, surpassing China, Japan and the US in the process, GSM Alliance says.

Source: Domain-B