Soon, Almost Everyone Over the Age of 6 Will Have a Mobile Phone: ReportThe report by communications giant Ericsson also stated that mobile growth is happening the fastest in India and China, with video comprising the largest segment of data traffic.
ByGeoff Weiss•
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While the concept of 6-year-olds texting one another from across the playground or placing calls from kindergarten cubbies may sound like a hilarious premise, it's also a stunning inevitability of our burgeoning mobile age.
The Swedish communications giant Ericsson has released a newmobilityreport claiming that, by the year 2020, 90 percent of the world's population aged 6 years and over will have mobile phones. At that point, Ericsson estimates total smartphone subscriptions will number 6.1 billion; there are an estimated 2.7 million total smartphone subscribers today.
And the 6-year-olds in question aren't merely inheritors of their parents' defunct devices that exclusively run apps and games. The report's executive editor, Patrick Cerwall, told狗万官方这个数字已经通过观察计算active phones connected to a network.
The report was chock full of other eye-popping finds. The fastest areas of growth for new mobile subscriptions, Ericsson said, are India and China. Additionally, video is the largest and fastest-growing segment of mobile data traffic, comprising 45 to 55 percent of all 4G-dominated networks.
Finally, with the commercial deployment of 5G -- the next generation of mobile standards -- by 2020, subscriptions are bound to increase even faster, just as 4G caused a greater spike in subscriptions than 3G, Ericsson said.
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