3 Billion 3G Mobile Broadband Users in 5 Years
3 Billion 3G Mobile Broadband Users in 5 Years
17th September , 2009
Europe : Last week at the Broadband World Forum in Paris, Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg made some predictions regarding the take up of 3G Mobile Broadband.
He predicts there will be over 3 billion 3G mobile broadband subscribers worldwide in the next five years. Currently there are over 4 billion 3G mobile users worldwide and by 2014 there will be 7 billion 3G mobile users.
He predicted how the telecoms industry is evolving and none more so in mobile broadband. He made a point of saying that the numbers above for mobile broadband is likely to include some users who have more than one SIM e.g. mobile and mobile broadband. He sees mobile broadband opportunities over the next five years as substantial.
He continued that by 2020 3G mobile broadband and even 4G mobile broadband will escalate to over 50 billion mobile broadband users. He introduced the idea that not all these mobile broadband connections would be used by us and others would be non-human connections. He gave an example of a non-human soft SIM in a car which uses mobile broadband to connect to motorway traffic information or even turn on the roadside lights as you drive by on a quiet road.
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