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Nov 11th 2013, 14:58, by Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Service
Smartphone subscriptions will triple and smartphone traffic will increase by a factor of 10 times between the end of this year and 2019. By that time about two-thirds of the world's population will be covered by LTE, according to a report from telecom vendor Ericsson.
The third quarter was a good one for smartphone sales. Vendors shipped a total of 258.4 million smartphones, setting a new record for units shipped in a single quarter by a margin of over 20 million units, according to IDC. That will help the total number of smartphone subscriptions reach 1.9 billion at the end of the year, according the latest edition of Ericsson's Mobility Report.
However, there is room for growth in many parts of the world. That's because even though smartphones accounted for about 55 percent of all mobile phones sold during the third quarter, they account for only between 25 and 30 percent of all mobile subscriptions, Ericsson said.
By 2016 the number of smartphone subscriptions will finally surpass those for basic phones, and by 2019 they will hit 5.6 billion out of a total of 9.3 billion.
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