Already the bulk of mobile phone sales in the United States, smartphones accounted for 55 percent of all new cellphone subscriptions globally, up from just 40 percent a year ago, according to a new report from Ericsson.
Mobile broadband subscriptions (those on 3G and 4G networks) globally are expected to reach 2 billion this year and more than quadruple again by 2019.
High-speed LTE connections, still just in their infancy globally, grew by 25 million subscribers in the third quarter, bringing the estimated worldwide total to 150 million. The number of LTE subscribers is seen hitting 2.6 billion by the end of 2019, with 85 percent of subscribers in North America having LTE capability.
The number of mobile subscriptions is growing globally, but for different reasons.
'In Asia Pacific this is driven by new subscribers,' Ericsson said in a report being released on Monday. In more mature markets, such as North America and Western Europe, the growth is limited and comes from the increasing number of subscriptions per individual - for example, adding a tablet.
Data use, is of course, exploding as well. Third quarter use totaled roughly 1,800 petabytes of data, up 80 percent from a year earlier. Ericsson sees that growing another tenfold by 2019.
Also of note, phones this year are projected to consumer more mobile data this year than PCs, tablets and other devices-the first year that has happened. Video accounts for about 35 percent of mobile data use globally, a figure that Ericsson sees that going to more than 50 percent by 2019.
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