Ericsson Mobility Report
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By 2020 the Earth will be 26 billion devices with access to the Internet and 6.1 billion smartphone users. This will lead to the rapid development of mobile Internet, which in five years will be plugged in 90% of the planet. With 80% of new connections to the mobile network will be in developing countries, where users are already actively buying cheap device. In 2020, smartphones will benefit from 6.1 billion people, according to a new study by Ericsson Mobility Report. According to the estimates of the Swedish company, in 2014, an estimated 2.6 billion smartphone users, and in the first quarter of 2015, the proportion of "smart" gadgets in the total volume of mobile phone sales accounted for 75%. In total for January — March to mobile hooked 107 million units, bringing the total number of connections close to 7.2 billion, and the level of mobile penetration on the planet has reached 99%. No less than the fast-evolving and mobile data network. Due to the growth in the number of smartphones, tablets and mobile routers the number of connections to LTE networks in the first quarter of 2015 exceeded 108 million and reached 2.9 billion.
