Over one million new Mobile Internet users added per day
June 13 2017 - 3:30AM
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Latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report foresees 2.6 billion
new mobile broadband subscribers will be added through 2022 -
averaging to more than one million each day
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Dominant access technology will be LTE (also known as 4G) in 2018,
making it the fastest-growing mobile technology in history
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Total traffic in mobile networks grew 70 percent between end of Q1,
2016 and end of Q1, 2017
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) foresees continued rapid
growth of mobile connectivity as global mobile data traffic
increases to eight times its current level by 2022.
This traffic is the equivalent of:
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The population of Spain streaming HD
video 24 hours per day for a month
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A single subscriber streaming HD video
continuously for 3.55 million years
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31 billion hours of continuous HD video
streaming
For the next six years, nearly 2.6 billion new
subscribers will be added to mobile broadband networks - enough to
fill a European championship soccer stadium (with capacity of
50,000) 20 times each day. As many people went to Times Square in
New York to welcome in the new year for 2017.
The latest collection of statistics about the
growth of subscribers and data traffic in mobile networks is
presented in the June edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report. It
shows the highest year-on-year mobile data growth globally since
2013, led by massive growth in India, and highlights the underlying
need for mobile data.
The use of smartphones and easy access to mobile
internet services comprise a major part of the traffic numbers.
Ericsson analyzes "smartphone mobile data traffic" within "mobile
data traffic" to illustrate this trend more clearly. By the end of
2022, total smartphone mobile data traffic will have increased 9X,
reaching 66 ExaBytes per month.
Niklas Heuveldop, Chief Strategy Officer and Head
of Technology and Emerging Business, Ericsson, says: "Based on
measurements made in hundreds of mobile networks, the Ericsson
Mobility Report data truly illustrates the tremendous underlying
growth in the industry. 4G subscriptions are increasing faster than
ever, Voice over LTE uptake is accelerating and traffic growth has
reached levels we have not seen since 2013.
"I am particularly excited to see the industry's
major steps to progress network evolution, including the approval
of the Non-Standalone 5G New Radio (NR) that will enable early 5G
deployments. According to our forecast, we anticipate that this
will lead to more than half a billion 5G subscriptions and a
population coverage of 15 percent by 2022."
On industry trends, the Mobility Report features
articles on Internet for all, massive IoT coverage in cities and
remote operation of vehicles with 5G.
LTE BECOMING MOST PERVASIVE
TECHNOLOGY IN HISTORY
In 2018, LTE (4G) will overtake GSM as the largest
access technology by number of subscriptions. The speed with which
this technology has been rolled out and adopted is unprecedented.
It has taken only five years for LTE to cover 2.5 billion people,
compared to eight years for WCDMA/HSPA, or 3G. In the first quarter
of this year alone, 250 million new LTE subscriptions were
added.
While LTE uptake is driven by demand for improved
user experience and faster networks, 5G deployment will also be
driven by the need for enhanced mobile broadband capabilities as
well as industry solutions for efficiency and automation. 5G will
be the one network to support a diversity of use cases. More than
half a billion 5G subscriptions are expected to be activated by
2022, not including IoT connections. 5G is then expected to cover
around 15 percent of the world's population.
Register for our webinar today, June 13, to get
into the details. See the full report including the Traffic
Exploration Tool to create your own graphs.
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