Ericsson Mobility Report: 70 percent of world's population using smartphones by 2020

Advanced mobile technology will be globally ubiquitous by 2020 with 70 percent of people using smartphones and 90 percent covered by mobile broadband networks. Smartphone subscriptions will more than double by 2020, reaching 6.1 billion. Almost 80% of these new subscriptions will come from Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. By 2020 80 percent of all mobile data traffic will come from smartphones. North America and Europe will continue to have highest data usage per smartphone. Video traffic to grow 55 percent per year until 2020, driven by video streaming services and increasing prevalence of video in online content.