Mobility report, 8.2 billion sims worldwide, exceed the population

2021 closed with about 8.2 billion SIMs in the world. In the fourth quarter of 2021 alone, mobile network subscriptions increased by 24 million units. The largest quarterly contribution comes from China (+5 million), followed by the United States (+4 million) and Pakistan (+3 million). This is what emerges from an update of the Mobility Report published by Ericsson with data relating to the entire 2021. It is now a fact that the Sims in circulation exceed the world human population, with a penetration rate of 104%, underlines the document. The number of unique mobile subscribers, on the other hand, is approximately 6 billion. The gap between unique users and total Sims is largely due to the presence of multiple Sims per person or inactive subscriptions. As for mobile Internet connections in the last quarter of 2021, they increased by about 37 million in LTE technology, reaching a total of 4.7 billion, or 57% of all mobile subscriptions. In the same period, 5G subscriptions – that is linked to a 5G device – recorded a growth of 98 million, reaching 660 million worldwide. Also according to the new Mobility Report, 200 operators have launched 5G services and at least 20 have implemented standalone (Sa) 5G networks. increase in mobile data traffic which grew by 44% between the fourth quarter of 2020 and the same period of 2021, to reach 80 Exabytes.