According to a report by Ericsson Group, the number of 5G subscriptions worldwide increased by 70 million in the second quarter of this year, reaching a total of 690 million.
Also, during the specified period, 218 communication service providers launched commercial 5G services and 24 (communication service providers) launched 5G Standalone networks.
About 8.3 billion mobile subscribers worldwide. China has the highest growth
Also in the second quarter of this year, the total number of mobile subscriptions globally reached approximately 8.3 billion (recording a net increase of 52 million subscriptions), accounting for 106% of the global population, according to data released by the company.
The largest growth in subscriptions in the second quarter of 2002 was in China (+10 million), followed by India (+7 million) and Indonesia (+4 million).
At the same time, according to the cited report, the number of mobile subscribers, which include broadband services, increased by about 100 million to 7.2 billion in the second quarter of this year, registering a 6 percent year-on-year increase.
Thus, mobile subscriptions that include broadband currently account for 86% of total mobile subscriptions.
In addition, 4G subscriptions worldwide increased by 77 million during the period to approximately 5 billion, accounting for 60% of all global mobile subscriptions. However, WCDMA/HSPA subscriptions fell by 41 million and GSM/EDGE subscriptions fell by 48 million.
At the same time, the number of unique owners of mobile subscriptions was 6.1 billion in the specified period, and the difference between the number of subscriptions and the number of subscribers was recorded against the background of inactive subscriptions, owners of multiple devices and/or optimization. subscriptions for various types of calls.
Data traffic on mobile networks increased by 39% to 100 exabytes (EB) per month between the second quarter of last year and the second quarter of this year.
In the long term, traffic growth is driven by both smartphone subscription growth and average data/subscription growth, mainly driven by rising video views (with significant variation in data traffic values/levels between markets, regions and service providers).
Source: Hot News RO
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