Mobile Broadband to Produce Majority of Subscriber Growth to 2014

The number of mobile broadband subscribers passed the number of fixed broadband subscribers, globally, in 2010, says Infonetics Research. A goodly part of the growth now is coming from smart phones, tablets and other devices, leading Infonetics to forecast that 1.5 billion connected devices will be in use by 2014.

As a consequence, fixed broadband will show slower growth as mobile broadband becomes the broadband of choice, on a global basis. That doesn't mean fixed line services will be abandoned, but simply that mobility is a "personal" service, used by people and sensors, where fixed line service is generally to a location. Since there are more people and sensors than homes or offices or factories, the unit growth will tend, over time, to be for mobile devices and sensors.

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