India will have more than 100 million 4G connections by 2020 and 3G will remain main technology to drive mobile broadband growth for next three years, Ericsson India head Chris Houghton said here today.
"In India, we expect 3G to remain the main technology to drive mobile broadband growth at least for next three years. We do expect to see an uptake of 4G around 2016-17 with the 4G numbers going to over 100 million by the year 2020," Houghton told reporters here.
Ericsson President and CEO Hans Vestberg said, "lTE (4G) subscriber growth will exceed 80 per cent; and world mobile broadband coverage will be above 70 per cent."
He said to acheve this growth, Indian telecom operators need more spectrum and further strengthen their network.India started spectrum auction today putting frequencies worth around Rs82,000 crore on offer.