According to new data, 55 percent of all mobile phone purchases were smartphones in the third quarter.
(Credit: Ericsson)
The mobile space's astronomic growth has been due in large part to the increasing popularity of smartphones, new data from Ericsson reveals.
The mobile firm on Monday released mobile phone sales data for the third quarter, and revealed that smartphones accounted for 55 percent of all worldwide handset sales during the period. In addition, Ericsson looked at carrier subscriptions, and found that by 2019, 5.6 billion of the 9.3 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide will be for smartphones.
Thanks to the increasing popularity of smartphones, Ericsson believes that mobile traffic originating from the handsets will increase 10 times between 2013 and 2019. Video will make up over 50 percent of all mobile global traffic, according to Ericsson. By 2019, total smartphone traffic will hit 10 exabytes annually.
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