Ericsson report: 2015 Global mobile phone Holdings will exceed the total population

2015 Global mobile phone Holdings will exceed the total population of June 4 News, Ericsson 3rd this month reported that the first quarter of this year, the global number of mobile phone registrations added 120 million. Of the handsets sold in the first quarter, 65% were smartphones, compared with 50% a year earlier. It is understood that, driven by markets such as China and India, the global number of mobile phone holdings (registered in the early 2015) is expected to surpass the global population. By the end of this year, Global handset holdings will reach 7 billion, compared with more than 7.2 billion of the global population in early 2015. By 2016, the number of smartphone registrations worldwide will exceed the number of traditional functional handsets. By 2019, the number of global smartphone registrations will reach 5.6 billion. By the end of 2019, mobile broadband (high-speed data network) registered users will reach 7.6 billion, accounting for the overall number of mobile phone registration of more than 80%, and 2013 of the proportion of 30%. By the end of 2019, China's LTE registered users will reach 700 million, accounting for more than 25% of the global LTE users.