The study, obtained by New Telegraph, reveals that IoT, which is categorised as connected cars, machines, utility metres, remote metering and consumer electronics will surpass standalone mobile phones in 2018, with growth in connected devices “driven by emerging applications and business models,” as well as falling device costs.
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“From 2020, commercial deployment of 5G networks will provide additional capabilities that are critical for IoT, such as network slicing and the capacity to connect exponentially more devices than is possible today,” she said. The company also reiterated a previously forecast goal of 150 million 5G subscriptions globally by 2021.
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Meanwhile, data traffic continues to explode, growing around 10 per cent quarter-onquarter and 60 per cent yearon- year in Q1 2016. Looking ahead, between 2015 and 2021, there will be a 12-folds growth in smartphone traffic, says Ericsson.
Around 90 per cent of mobile data traffic will be from smartphones by the end of 2021. Ericsson added, “A long anticipated milestone” is also being passed in 2016, with LTE supporting downlink peak speeds of 1Gb/s, a feat expected in the second half of the year from operator networks in the United States, Japan, South Korea and China.
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