According to updated figures just released by Ericsson, the number of active 5G subscriptions worldwide has topped 1 billion. Some 136 million 5G subscriptions were added globally between October and December 2022.
Among other statisticsin the Ericsson update:
- There were more than 8.4 billion mobile subscriptions at the close of 2022 – a net addition of 39 million between October-December 2022.
- Nigeria accounted for the most mobile subscriptions net additions between October-December 2022, accounting for more than four million. More than four million were also added in the Philippines and more than three million in
- There were about 6.1 billion unique mobile subscribers at the close 2022.
- Mobile broadband accounts for about 86 percent of all mobile subscriptions.
- Mobile network data traffic grew 40 percent between Q4 2021 and Q4 2022, reaching 118 EB (exabytes) per month.
- There was a ten percent quarter-on-quarter mobile network data traffic growth between Q3 2022 and Q4 2022.
- Mobile network data traffic has doubled in just two years.
- 4G subscriptions increased by 36 million from October-end of December 2022 to around 5.1 billion, representing 60 percent of all mobile subscriptions
- WCDMA/HSPA subscriptions fell by 89 million during Q4, 2022, while GSM/EDGE-only subscriptions dropped by 40 million during the same period.
- At the close of 2022, 235 communications service providers (CSPs) had launched commercial 5G services. About 35 CSPs have deployed or launched 5G standalone (SA) networks.