LTE contracts by vendor

A few days ago I came across an interesting article that lists the proportion of LTE contracts awarded by vendor worldwide (as of August 2013). The source is Informa Telecoms & Media and according to them the data has been verified by the vendors themselves.

Clearly two companies, Chinese Huawei and Swedish Ericsson dominate the market with Huawei at a slight advantage. Third is NSN followed by "Other" which inlcudes Samsung, Alcatel Lucent and ZTE. Of these Samsung and ZTE can be considered developing, while Alcatel Lucent seems a shadow of its former self.

I guess what this article fails to mention is the scale of these contracts. From that perspective Ericsson would definitely be ahead as it has secured big contracts in the US, Korea & Japan where the vast majority of LTE users and traffic is today (approx 85% according to some recent stats published by the GSMA). Huawei on the other hand is pretty much banned from the US so that doesn't help either.

The full article can be found here