Ericsson Mobility Report June 2014

Ericsson’s mobility report for June provides a host of information on the state of mobile globally. Some of the important features of the report are

1) Total mobile subscriptions in Q1 2014 is around 6.8 billion.

2) Global mobile subscriptions grown at 7 % Yearly and 2% quarlerly. Global mobile penetration reached 93% in Q1 2014.

3) Top 5 countries by net additions

India +28 million
China +19 million
Indonesia +7 million
Thailand +6 million
Bangladesh +4 million

4) Mobile Subscription Outlook – 9.2 Billion Subscriptions by the end of 2019

5) 2.6 Billion LTE Subscriptions by the end of 2019

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Internet.org – Facebook, Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Opera, MediaTek and Qualcomm plan to bring Internet access to Everyone

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