As HSPA continues to evolve, addressing the needs of changing user behavior, new techniques develop and become standardized. These techniques provide network operators with the flexibility, capacity and coverage needed to carry voice and data into the future. Mobile broadband (MBB), providing high-speed internet access from more or less anywhere, is becoming a reality for an increasing proportion of the world's population. There are several factors fuelling the need for high-performance MBB networks, not the least, the growing number of mobile internet connections. As Figure 1 illustrates, global mobile subscriptions (excluding M2M) are predicted to grow to 9.1 billion by the end of 2018. Nearly 80 percent of mobile subscriptions will be MBB ones1, indicating that MBB will be the primary service for most operators in the coming years.
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