Ericsson: By 2017, 85% of the world's population will have access to high-speed mobile Internet

According to the report "The pace of technology, joining the society," prepared by Ericsson 85% of the world's population will have access to 3G-Internet in 2017, and the number of mobile connections will be nearly 9 billion, compared to 6 billion at the end of 2011 (without accounting M2M connections). The number of mobile broadband connections in the world will reach 5 billion by 2017, compared with 1 billion at the end of 2011. For many people around the world will become a major mobile device to access the Internet. Already, about 75% HSPA networks provide a peak data transfer rate up to 7.2 megabits per second or higher, and 40% achieved a mark of 21 Mbit / sec. Ericsson also predicts that by 2017 half the population of the Earth year will have access to LTE/4G networks. The number of mobile connections using smart phones to be about 3 billion in 2017 compared with 700 million in 2011 total volume of mobile data traffic continues to grow - in the period Q1 2011 to Q1 2012, its volume has doubled, mainly due by video content. Smartphones remain a driving force behind the growth of data traffic. According to forecasts of Ericsson, during the period from 2011 to 2017 the volume of mobile data traffic will increase by 15 times. information presented in this report illustrates the differences between countries and regions. In terms of net increase in the number of connections in the 1st quarter of 2012 was the leader of China - 39 million new connections in second place - India, with the result in 25 million Total number of connections in the Asia-Pacific region totaled 93 million in Africa, this figure equal to 30 million over the past year the number of mobile connections in Russia rose to 227.6 million, according to Ericsson, in Russia there are 14 million mobile broadband users, of which 49% - are members of USB-modems. At the same time 86% of total mobile data traffic in Russia is on the network 3G. Mobile penetration in our country at the end of last year was 99.5%.