According to the recent survey by Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), EDGE mobile services are currently provided by 316 operators in 149 countries. A year ago there were 213 suppliers, a 48% rise.
A total of 257 networks, i.e. 81% of all, have already launched commercial services, compared to 156 commercial networks registered by GSA last September. EDGE-based commercial services are currently available in 123 countries (others are on the deployment stage). At the same time, there are 101 networks in Europe, 64 – in America and the Caribbean, 46 – in Asia Pacific and 46 – in Mid East and Africa.
In addition GSA singles out 128 operators, which are offering or planning to do so soon both EDGE and 3G services. At the same time 93 WCDMA-EDGE networks has been already used on commercial basis.
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