5G on a roll, cellular IoT deployments ramping up – Ericsson Mobility Report
- 5 billion IoT cellular connections predicted for 2023
- 5G commercial launches this year; North America seen leading the 5G uptake
- 20 percent of global mobile data t
Cellular IoT connections
Ericsson: 20 million 5g subscriptions in the region by 2022
- Mobile data traffic will increase 13-fold by 2022 in region Middle East and North East Africa
- Smartphone will account for 56% of total subscriptions by 2022 across the region
- Cellular IoT connections will increase around 4 times by 2022, reaching 45 million connections in the region
- Video consumption in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and UAE exceeds the global average