T-Mobile Hungary, a wholly owned unit of Magyar Telekom (MTel), has announced that its Long Term Evolution (LTE) subscriber base reached 450,000 at the end of 2014, an increase of 70% from 265,000 one year earlier, and up from 320,000 at the end of October 2014. According to the telco, its 4G data traffic tripled during 2014.
According to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database, T-Mobile Hungary launched 4G LTE services in January 2012, initially in the capital, before expanding its coverage to around 80% of the population by December 2014. As at 30 September 2014 T-Mobile was the country’s largest mobile service provider in terms of subscribers, with 48.1% of the market, placing it ahead of the Hungarian units of Telenor (28.6%) and Vodafone (23.4%).