5G Mobile Subscriptions to Grow to 2.6B Globally in 2025, Predicts Ericsson

Ericsson expects 5G will grow to 2.6 billion wireless subscriptions globally by the end of 2025, for 29 percent of wireless accounts: “With the continued momentum for 5G, we predict 13 million 5G subscriptions by the end of this year.” A “big share” will be in China, where all three main service providers launched commercial 5G services in Q4, the equipment vendor said Monday. “Sign-up of customers started even before launch, with more than 10 million 5G users registered in October.” LTE is expected to remain “the dominant mobile access technology” the next six years, peaking in 2022 at 5.4 billion subscriptions globally before declining to 4.8 billion by the end of 2025 “as LTE subscriptions migrate to 5G,” said Ericsson.