Welcome to the third issue of IJBDCN of 2012. When this issue reaches you, the high speed 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks are fast being deployed by mobile operators around the world. About 96 operators in 46 countries have already completed deployment of LTE networks, while commitment is there from 347 operators in about 104 countries to join the bandwagon in near future. As the network speed and spectral efficiency are increasing, data rate on these networks are also increasing rapidly. Analysts expect that mobile data download may touch the all-time high of about 1.2 Exabytes/month by this year, thanks to ultra Smartphones and associated applications that are being launched one after another throughout the world.
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