More Mobile Subscribers than People by 2015

Next year the total number of mobile subscriptions will exceed the world’s population. Mobile broadband subscriptions also continue to grow and will reach 7.6 billion by the end of 2019.
In two years’ time, in 2016, the number of smartphone subscriptions will exceed those for basic phones and by 2019 the number of smartphone subscriptions is expected to reach 5.6 billion. In Europe, the number of smartphone subscriptions will reach about 765 million in 2019 and thereby exceed the population number.
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