Within 3 Years, Mobile Will Represent 80% of All Internet Subscriptions

It is hard to ignore the role now played by mobile and untethered access to the Internet, especially Wi-Fi.

Notably, Wi-Fi has become a crucial access mechanism for Internet access, even for mobile network users.

Beyond that, mobility is the normal and typical way most human beings get Internet access. The number of mobile broadband subscribers around the world surpassed that of fixed broadband at the end of 2010.  

In 2015, there were about 3.1 billion mobile broadband subscribers compared to 848 million fixed broadband subscribers.

source: Brookings

Within perhaps three years, mobile broadband will compose about 80 percent of total broadband subscriptions and become the dominant means of Internet connectivity.  

In emerging markets, mobile broadband is expected to increase from 37 to 79 percent of all broadband subscriptions between 2010 and 2015.

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https://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/Global_Internet_Report_2014.pdf