The number of mobile users in the world reached 6 billion

According to the updated report on the development of Ericsson's telecom market and the growth of traffic, the global reach of mobile communications for the fourth quarter of 2011 was 85%. Today there are about 6 billion cellular subscribers. Despite the fact that the formal number of mobile users in the world of 6 billion, the actual number - about 4.1 billion, as many of them are subscribers of multiple operators. Thus, 60% of the population are subscribers of cellular communication. 35% of the 180 million new mobile subscribers registered in the fourth quarter of 2011, occur in India and China. Further, the number of new subscribers followed by Brazil, Indonesia and Bangladesh. According to the statistics of past years, the average number of mobile phone users for the year grows by 13% to about 3% per quarter. About 75% of subscribers use GSM, for 15% of users in the world available to us the standard 3G/HSPA. During the year the number of mobile broadband users has grown by about 60%, and now number close to 1 billion in all regions of the growing popularity of smartphones. About 30% of all handsets sold in 2011 were smartphones, whereas in 2010 the share of smartphone sales accounted for only 20%. Globally, only 10% of mobile users own smartphone, which indicates the great potential of the mobile broadband. companies According to Ericsson, continued strong growth in mobile data traffic. During the period from the third quarter 2010 to third quarter 2011 the volume of data has doubled. The increase between the second and third quarters of last year was 18%. Mobile voice traffic over the past four years has doubled and continues to grow at a steady pace. These indicators are particularly relevant in regions where there is a significant increase in the number of new subscribers, for example, in developing countries in Asia. The traffic data mobile PC users varies greatly depending on the preferences of customers and countries. According to Ericsson, is one such user downloads a month on average about 2 GB of data. Full Report Ericsson's market situation and traffic data will be published in the second quarter of 2012