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June 6, 2012 12:02 am GMT
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85% of the World Will Have High-Speed Mobile Internet by 2017 [REPORT]
Today, 85% of the world’s population has access to a mobile phone with voice and text capabilities. Five years from now, in 2017, the same amount of the global community will have access to high-speed 3G Internet through mobile phones, finds a new report from Ericsson. By 2017, there will be 9 billion mobile subscriptions. Half of the world’s population will have a 4G connection, and there will be 3 billion smartphone subscriptions. To compare those numbers with today’s figures, there are currently 6.2 billion mobile subscriptions held by 4.2 billion subscribers (many of whom have multiple subscriptions). At the end of 2011, there were 700 million smartphone subscr… Continue reading...Original Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/NJDF6Kt8YzI/
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