Mobile phone subscriptions in the world exceeded 5 billion, Android will show its presence to the future to 50 billion

in JapanAt the end of January 2007, the number of subscriptions combined with mobile phones and PHS exceeded 100 million, Although the number of contracts has continued to grow after that, the number of mobile phone contracts continues to increase even on a global scale, and it seems that it reached 5 billion at last.

In addition, it is expected that the number of subscriptions will reach 50 billion in the future, and it is clear that Android is starting to show its presence among users who have newly contracted mobile phones.

Details are as below.
Mobile subscriptions hit 5 billion mark - Ericsson

According to a press release announced by Ericsson, a Swedish telecom equipment maker that has developed a mobile phone maker "Sony Ericsson" joint venture with Sony, the number of cellular phone subscriptions worldwide on July 8th local time is 50 It is estimated that it surpassed billion.

This is due to the growth of emerging markets such as India and China, and the number of mobile phone subscribers in the world as of 2000 is less than the number of mobile phone contracts currently held by one country of China, about 720 million It was said that there was.

Among the 5 billion subscribers, the number of subscriptions of "3G mobile phone (3G)" that can use high speed communication is about 500 million, but more than 3,400,000 users will be able to use high speed communication by 2015 In addition, 80% of users using the Internet are supposed to connect via mobile devices.

Also, for the purpose of accessing the road information to efficiently move the transportation system, uploading the photographed image to the Internet on the spot, monitoring the remaining amount of the machine that produces soda as in the drink bar, etc., the communication function Ericsson anticipates that the number of cellular phone subscriptions will reach 50 billion in the next ten years.

By the way, although it is said that the number of cellular phone subscriptions is currently growing at 2 million pace per day,When Motorola announced the Android smartphone "DROID X" on June 24, it revealed that the Android terminal is being activated at 160,000 pace per dayTherefore, it seems that 8% of the newly contracted communication terminals, indeed nearly 10% are Android terminals.