Mobile broadband use to touch 3.5 Billion by 2015
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Mobile broadband use to touch 3.5 Billion by 2015
Stockholm: The number of consumers using mobile broadband to access internet is expected to climb from current 400 million to nearly 3.5 billion by 2015, reveals Swedish telecommunications equipment vendor Ericson. Global mobile broadband use in the next five years would leap to the same level as the use of second-generation mobile phone services (voice and text messaging) today. About 3.5 billion people worldwide use such services today, while only about 400 million have access to third generation (3G) mobile broadband services through their phones or laptops, Ericsson told AFP. By 2020, the total number of mobile phone subscriptions worldwide will have jumped to six billion, the company predicted. Thanks to the rapid expansion of mobile broadband services, the volume of wireless data traffic reached the same level as voice traffic worldwide last year, and is expected to go beyond mobile telephony by the end of this year. "We have just seen the beginning of the massive data growth, driven by smart phones and other mobile devices," said Ericsson Chief Executive Hans Vestberg. "It's important for us to follow this development," he added.

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