Ericsson Mobility Report: 5G subscriptions to top 2.6 billion by end of 2025

November 27, 2019

• 5G to cover up to 65 percent of the world’s population by the end of 2025 and handle 45 percent of global mobile data traffic • Smartphone users to consume a global average of 24 GB per month in 2025 from 7.2 GB currently, as video usage increases and new services become available • Total number of cellular IoT connections estimated at five billion by the end of 2025, from 1.3 billion by end of 2019